"Words physically have power to bring things into existence."

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Miroslav Penkov

#Existence Quotes

“...You cannot live by sight and by faith, neither can you live by fear and by faith. It either has to be by faith or by fear, by faith or by sight. Which way are you living? Faith takes out the anxiety It takes out the fear. Faith leans heavy on the Lord. It knows that the Bible is so and can be trusted and that we can live by it and all of our needs will be supplied.”
“Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.”
“Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.”
“We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge.”
“In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.”

Source : Katharine Graham (2009). “Katharine Graham's Washington”, p.27, Vintage
“In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.”
“We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection ...”

Source : Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.206
“Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness”

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