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We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.


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WILLIAM PENN Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memo...
PENN JILLETTE I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.
PENN JILLETTE America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to...
PENN JILLETTE 'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that every...
PENN JILLETTE To delay justice, is injustice.
WILLIAM PENN Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.
PENN JILLETTE As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.
WILLIAM PENN If there be three distinct and separate Persons, then three distinct and separate Substances. . . . ...
WILLIAM PENN Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell
WILLIAM PENN Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is th...
WILLIAM PENN The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the exi...
PENN JILLETTE The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double...
PENN JILLETTE Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird ki...
PENN JILLETTE I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week pr...
PENN JILLETTE I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same col...
PENN JILLETTE Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
WILLIAM PENN Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
WILLIAM PENN What we've seen over the past few months is a very gradual recovery in retail sales. We're likely to...
MICHAEL PENN Retail sales have shown tentative signs of a modest recovery from weak levels, but in our view a con...
MICHAEL PENN