"When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ... either they turn to a contemplation of the past ... or they set about to ... alter the future. And when you want to change something ... YOU BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!"

-- Edward Albee

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“I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.”
“One of my fun road trips was [when] a group of guys and I rented a tour bus and we started in Orlando and drove all the way around the country going to baseball games. That was an awesome trip because each night we would go to a new baseball stadium, watch a baseball game, get in the bus, wake up [in] the next city, go to another baseball game. We did this for a little while and it was great. We called that trip the Rats on the Bus and it was a fun trip.”
“This is Manchester, we do things differently here”

Source : "No strings attached: why the trend for classical 'raves' needs to end" by John Thorp, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2016.
“Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.”

Source : Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon “A Short Method Of Prayer”, Library of Alexandria
“How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?”
“I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.”
“God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is with us in our wheelchairs, or on our hospital beds, when all we can do is sit or lie flat. When we envision Him and His purpose in what we do, then we begin to grow aware of His presence in the middle of it. We are able to engage in our inward conversation with Him as we work, naturally, without strain. He becomes our partner, our collaborator.”
“If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.”

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