http://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/02/22/recovering-from-an-enjoyable-trip-down-memory-lane/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Sat, 25 May 2013 19:20:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/02/22/recovering-from-an-enjoyable-trip-down-memory-lane/comment-page-1/#comment-152605 colorless.blue.ideas Sun, 24 Feb 2013 05:23:45 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26837#comment-152605 Ah, my friend.  It was not “despite the absence”, but “because of the absence”! 
“We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. The miracle in question was only performed to hasten the operation, under circumstances of present necessity, which required it.”
Ben Franklin, 1791

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