"Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away."

-- Daniel Taylor

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“Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original.”

Source : Andrew Murray (2016). “Humility: The Beauty of Holiness”, p.27, Gideon House Books
“I believe it is peace in our time.”
“Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt. On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.”
“But the paparazzi are quite malicious and vocal and really rude, ... And they camped outside of my house, so I started throwing eggs at them, lobbing them at rocks next to them.”
“PimpCo is a little business I've got, which basically offers drummers the affordable opportunity to make their drums that little bit more bespoke. I love drums and love how they look, so we offer re-wrapping to reboot your old kit, a hardware lacquering service - the black looks amazing, and bespoke snare drums.”

Source : Source: www.roland.co.uk
“Do something. Get results. Decide if it's worth repeating.”
“One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.”
“Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.”

Source : Frances Wright (1831). “Course of Popular Lectures,”, p.132

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