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“The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line.”
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“Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.”
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“I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.”
Source : "John Galliano describes rampant drug abuse in first interview since Dior firing" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2013. 
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“Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.”
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“Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.”
Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.283, New York Review of Books
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“I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14.”
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“The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.”
Source : Jill Lepore (2011). “The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History”, p.162, Princeton University Press
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“I carry around a notebook that is equal parts day planner and journal. Every morning, I check to see what the agenda for the day is, and if there isn't a plan, I make one. I strive to fill the rest of the page with miscellaneous thoughts and ideas and go back through and fill sparse pages as well. If I start skipping days, I know I'm off course and need to take a step back and ground my life.”
