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“And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.”
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“If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.”
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“There has to be pain. That's the rule.”
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“I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.”
Source : "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.
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“The gospel is the proclamation of free love; the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit our world; nothing else is so likely to touch the heart, to go down to the lowest depths of depraved humanity, as the assurance that the sinner has been loved -- loved by God, loved with a righteous love, loved with a free love that makes no bargain as to merit, or fitness, or goodness.”
Source : Horatius Bonar (2018). “God's Way of Holiness”, p.36, Bible Study Books
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“Love is three quarters curiosity.”
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“There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.”
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“I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.”
Source : Andrew Lambirth, R. B. Kitaj (2004). “Kitaj”, Philip Wilson Publishers