"When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and the clock is ticking and it's costly and I enter into a super-heightened state of mind."

-- Michael Light

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“I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.”
“Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.”

Source : Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.”

Source : "Semantic Attacks: The Third Wave of Network Attacks". Cryptogram Newsletter, www.schneier.com. October 15, 2000.
“We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.”
“I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.”
“There is a danger in the word someday when what it means is â€œnot this day.â€...The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting. We will weep, and He will weep, if we have intended to repent and to serve Him in tomorrows which never came or have dreamt of yesterdays where the opportunity to act was past. This day is a precious gift of God. The thought â€œSomeday I willâ€ can be a thief of the opportunities of time and the blessings of eternity.”
“Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale.”
“If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.”

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