One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to … - Michael Bywater

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The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.

Michael Bywater

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.

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Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.

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Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an excellently embarrassing primate book, and just the thing to make us blush and shuffle our feet.

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America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin nights. . . the America we yearned for has gone. Did it ever exist?

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How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?

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Sinclair B. Ferguson

There are actually only ever two pastoral problems you will ever encounter. The first is this: persuading those who are under the dominion of sin that they are under the dominion of sin. That's the task of evangelism. And [second], persuading those who are no longer under the dominion of sin that they are no longer under the dominion of sin because they're Christ's.

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I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know? It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy.

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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

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