"The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down."

-- Gianna Beretta Molla

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“I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm not afraid to be alone. I'm just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes.”
“My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The Nazis spoke of having a Jewish problem. We now speak of having a drug-abuse problem. Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; "drug-abuse problem" is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs.”
“Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“You don't have the potential to create, you are always creating.”
“We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves.”

Source : Source: threeguysonebook.com
“Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.”
“Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.”

Source : George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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