"Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for."

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Neal A. Maxwell

#Essence Quotes #Leaving Quotes #Trials Quotes

“Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.”
“I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.”
“Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, world champions at losing sleep. When Meryl Streep got hysterical about Alar, they actually checked the apples instead of Meryl's head.”
“Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.”
“Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.”

Source : Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
“I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.”
“If I need you I'll give you a signal.' What signal?" I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl”

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