“This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.” TryingKindSometimesMovingReligiousExampleNotionStrikesClassicAgendasCynicalOppressedControversyPloy Author:Barack Obama
“When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.” WritingTryingKindDoeI CanReasonValuesInterestNaturalMy OwnFictionDramaWeaknessMediumsEndowmentSlenderConfessingNatural Phenomena Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work they undertake, succeed, and, in the average of cases, are advanced in proportion to their efficiency; while the incompetent, society soon finds out, ceases to employ, forces to try something easier, and eventually turns to use.” TryingKindUseTurnsCoursesForceNaturalCasesCitizensEasierSucceedFunctionAverageCeaseProportionEfficiencyCompetentIncompetent Book:Essays--scientific, political and speculative Source: Essays--scientific, political and speculative