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"That's a pretty big change for your wife of many years to tell you. That's a shock."
       -CNN founder Ted Turner, in an interview with The New Yorker on Jane Fonda's telling him that she had become aChristian. Mr. Turner told the magazine his wife's newfound faith had played a role in the couple's pending divorce. The billionaire media titan says he became an atheist after his sister died.

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"Dolly the sheep will learn to fly before the U.S. House of Representatives condones human cloning."
       -U.S Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla., discussing congressional hearings on the possibility of federal funding for human cloning research.

The Dallas Morning News, March 29, 2001.

"There are liquor stores and there are strip clubs with prostitution prevalent in the area...But if we try to meet the needs of those who fall prey to drug addiction or alcohol or what have you, we're told we can't do that."
       -Avis Hill, pastor of Westgate Tabernacle in Palm Beach County, Florida, complaining that local officials are trying to shut down his ministry to the homeless. Pastor Hill is frustrated that seedy businesses are zoned for his area, but officials are using the same laws to prevent him from helping people harmed by those businesses. The county has fined him $20,000 for letting homeless men sleep at his church, placed a lien on the church building, and sent a collection agency after him.

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