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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, o

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. – Richard Powers

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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. – Richard Powers

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The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both. – John Cornyn

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I never got into politics for it to be a career. – J. C. Watts

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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy wont. – Hyman Rickover

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I dont take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more. – Robert Carlyle

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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. – Joseph Ratzinger

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In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just cant have everything you want. – Bernard Baruch

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