"Who the Lord calls, the Lord will qualify."

-- Thomas S. Monson

“When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.”
“Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.”
“The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.”
“Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that”
“The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.”
“To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.”

Source : William Empson (1935). “Some Versions of Pastoral”, p.14, New Directions Publishing
“You know when I started playing music as a young man I felt the need to be noticed and to prove myself. My motivation is much different now but what's still left is the love of music and the joy of entertaining people- the feeling that I make a difference, giving something back rather than just taking. Every year or two I come out with new music, or new arrangements of old music which keeps my show fresh.”
“It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.”

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