... a concept originated in Plato's Republic:a 'noble lie' is a myth or an untruth knowingly propagated by an elite, in order to promote and maintain social harmony or advance an agenda. - Robin Aitken, The Noble Liar, p.13
'If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.'- George Washington
"I know of nothing, dear friends, which I would choose to have, as the subject of my ambition for life, than to be kept faithful to my God to death."
- Charles Spurgeon
Those who think that an understanding of the double helix is the same as an understanding of ourselves are not only prey to an illusion but are stunting themselves as human beings, condemning themselves no to an advance in self understanding but ti a positive retrogression. - - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.29
In death Christ had more concern for you than he had for himself. In the garden, on the cross, in the grave, his silly lost sheep were always in his mind. Love has an excellent memory and cannot forget. - Samuel Rutherford
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