鈥淵ou will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me.鈥�
Supposedly the words of Jesus Christ to Judas Iscariot, interpreted as meaning Judas will liberate Jesus鈥檚 true self, as revealed in documents carbon-dated to AD 300 and said to be the Gospel of Judas (The New York Times, 6 April)
鈥淚f God loves you, you do much better than people who don鈥檛 have any beliefs.鈥�
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AIDS researcher Solomon Katz, on a study showing that people who are HIV-positive and believe God loves them lose vital CD4 immune-system cells at only one-third the rate of those who don鈥檛 believe, or who believe God is punishing them (San Francisco Chronicle, 6 April)
鈥淭his is not about fun. It鈥檚 about function.鈥�
Moses Znaimer, chairman of Cannasat Therapeutics, a Canadian company searching for medical uses for marijuana, responding to a reporter who asked if the company鈥檚 products would 鈥済ive you a buzz鈥� (Toronto Star, 6 April)
鈥淲e sometimes call doctors from the Forensic Institute to do a pelvic exam.鈥�
Flor Evelyn Topez, a prosecutor in San Salvador, El Salvador, where abortion is punishable by up to 50 years in prison, and suspects can undergo internal investigations to look for evidence such as a perforated uterus (The New York Times, 9 April)
鈥淚f it鈥檚 not in the taxpayers鈥� interest to fund programmes that are not effective, then we are not going to.鈥�
Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources of the new Canadian government, on why it is cutting the climate change budget by 40 per cent (CBC News, 5 April)