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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
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If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.
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Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time
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I happened to be in the right place at the right time.
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I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time
