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One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.
~ Nancy Horan
About
Approach
Characters
Did
Disguise
Fiction
Frank
Great
Historical
Historical Fiction
Learned
Lessons
Loving
People
Try
Understand
Why
Writing
You
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So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.
~ Nancy Horan
Big
Details
Digging
Fun
Historians
Historical
Keep
Like
Process
Puzzle
Research
Secret
Seductive
Themselves
Then
Thrill
Together
Wildly
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America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
~ Nancy Pearcey
America
Blessings
Choice
Either
Extinction
Faces
Fundamental
Headed
Liberalism
Liberty
Other
Political
Servitude
Struggle
Survival
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America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Always
America
Anyone
Assimilate
Assimilation
Bent
Character
Conquest
Islam
National
National Character
Our
Radical
Radical Islam
Rejects
Welcomed
Willing
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Accepted
America
Counts
Define
Determine
Facts
Greatest
Information
Knowledge
Material
Much
Political
Political Power
Power
Resources
Social
Society
Therefore
Those
Where
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Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.
~ Nancy Pearcey
American
Area
Every
Grown
Impatient
Life
Relentless
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Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Ages
Been
Beginning
Cambridge
Christianity
Church
Empire
First
Had
Intellectual
Invented
Leadership
Middle
Middle Ages
Oxford
Paris
Provided
Roman
Roman Empire
Universities
West
Who
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
~ Nancy Pearcey
A Good Thing
Always
Best
Competition
Complacent
Forces
Good
Good Thing
Mediocrity
Monopoly
Our
People
Satisfied
Thing
Us
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During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
~ Nancy Pearcey
After
Birth
Celebrate
Centuries
Christian
Christmas
Easter
First
Holiday
Jesus
No-One
Setting
Thought
Up
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Children
Content
Creative
Education
Government
Over
Turn
Ultimate
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If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Accept
Civilized
Civilized Society
Commit
Consequences
Deny
Facts
Fund
Inhumane
Intellectual
No Reason
Outlook
Problem
Reason
Scientific
Should
Society
Suicide
Want
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Attitude
Cultivating
Detachment
Did
Either
Enlightenment
Even
Indifference
Matter
Meant
Physical
Physical World
Seeking
Suffering
Ultimately
Which
World
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Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Any
Christianity
Cultural
Discovered
Idiom
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Inherently
People
Universal
Western
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Become
Generating
Jargon
Literary
Literature
Love
Own
Parody
Process
Sake
Science
Theory
Tragically
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Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Anything
Benefit
Doubt
Giving
Influenced
Journalists
Many
Societies
Suspicious
Western
While
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Dualism
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Feelings
Meaning
Mind
Modern
Morality
Only
Own
Physical
Physical World
Private
Realm
Secular
So-Called
Spirit
Split
Subjective
Thought
Treats
While
World
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My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Ability
Adult
Aim
Children
Give
Last
Learner
Lives
Rest
Set
Skill
Will
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Agent
Government
He
He Or She
How
How Much
Like
Local
Local School
Matter
Much
School
School Teacher
She
Teacher
You
Your
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Actually
Based
Been
Bringing
Long
Merely
Personal
Position
Private
Public
Square
Values
Views
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Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Classroom
Education
Exclusive
Grants
Monopoly
Public
Public Education
Secular
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