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God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist w... BILL VAUGHAN If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who... BILL VAUGHAN If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who... BILL VAUGHN If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who ... BILL VAUGHAN If I hadn't liked Logan before, I would now at how he is handling all of this. he chuckles as we rea... L.A. FIORE What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I... PATRICK JONES This is their way of saying they are much more determined than we are, ... The Age of Sacred Terror. 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JON ORINGER Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Po... JON KATZ I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house... JON STEWART When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantl... JON TENNEY The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and s... JON LANDAU I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people. JON PARDI Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines,... JON SCIESZKA Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and e... JON MEACHAM Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the... JON SECADA I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once. 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JON OSSOFF It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. Wha... JON MEACHAM I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, ... JON MEACHAM We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve... JON BATISTE It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ... JON MEACHAM If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for... JON FAVREAU We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings d... JON STEWART An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the reje... JON MEACHAM Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood... JON KYL I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay ... JON JOHANSEN I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You w... JON ANDERSON Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. ... JON FOREMAN I would say television is a focus, and expanding our channel platform is a focus. As for buying libr... JON FELTHEIMER I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in ... JON KRAKAUER Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did. JON LOVITZ The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all ... JON ORINGER Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family... JON KATZ