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"My anecdotal gestalt impression is this SC shooting is actually a Road to Damascus moment for a nontrivial number of conservatives."

Iraq exists only in the minds of people in the White House.”

"I’ve never heard a farmer use so many curse words."

"The Forest Service, as I said, maintains no trails in Mann Gulch. But it does maintain crosses."

'Our country is not alone in being founded on the backs of slaves. But it may be unique in systematically educating white children to forget about this."

"One could also argue about the differences between the NFL and women’s soccer, but it is indisputable that both qualify as sports."

"Farm Aid is a whirlwind that blows through town, and we all hope to catch some of it in our sails."

"Neither Flagstaff nor any of the other International Dark Skies Communities has turned into a commerce-free, crime-filled Gotham."

"Visiting from where? you might ask. From nowhere."

"When driving down her street in Maryland, Su often pressed her garage-door opener in order to find her house."

"Zero phones in each box? That's definitely not enough phones."

"A conversation about God is not about a man, and does not fail; and a conversation with God is not with a woman, and does not pass."

"If the Dead Kennedies do not like the man so don't I. I also don't like fashists."

Steve Thorngate

The Century managing editor is also a church musician and songwriter.

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