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A. J. GOSSIP This insensibility of ours is a bad symptom. For one thing, it implies that we have no spiritual amb...
A. J. GOSSIP If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter...
A. J. GOSSIP Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885 We...
A. J. GOSSIP Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simp...
A. J. GOSSIP Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711 When we look at the history of th...
A. J. GOSSIP Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 You and I drift on through the years du...
A. J. GOSSIP Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer ...
A. J. GOSSIP God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ.
A. J. GOSSIP Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 You, too, are called to be an open letter,...
A. J. GOSSIP He hits them a long way. I wish I could, just one time, know how that feels like. He hits them as fa...
A. J. PIERZYNSKI The rings are great. We can now put last year behind us and move on. After tomorrow hopefully all th...
A. J. PIERZYNSKI It's the hardest by a long shot. You recalibrate yourself.
A. J. KITT Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it
A. J. MUSTE The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he fi...
A. J. LIEBLING It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the o...
A. J. LIEBLING The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
A. J. LIEBLING I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
A. J. LIEBLING Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is sol...
A. J. LIEBLING An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. LIEBLING I didn't take any exception to it. It wasn't a big deal. It's part of it. Whatever.
A. J. PIERZYNSKI Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
A. J. LIEBLING The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible...
A. J. LIEBLING Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred...
A. J. LIEBLING I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I...
A. J. MCLEAN Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either t...
A. J. P. TAYLOR Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to...
A. J. P. TAYLOR A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
A. J. P. TAYLOR Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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