"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago."

-- Louis Armstrong

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“I had it in my mind: to be confident, and to keep saying that until the confidence appeared. But I took it too far. Confidence did help make me champion, but, man, I took it to a whole different level. I was a megalomaniac. I was not humble and it eventually came back on me. So I want my kids to know, keep humbleness and kindness in their hearts. It will prevail.”
“The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain, which is 20 weeks and older.”

Source : "Kentucky State Rep. Joe Fischer: Abortion is ‘Most Brutal Form of Domestic Violence’" by Jonathan Meador, wfpl.org. January 14, 2014.
“Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place in the realm of constant victory, health, wholeness, and financial prosperity. In response to this we are not to pretend that suffering doesnâ€™t exist or that it might be instantly cured. Such notions are the product of empty heads and closed Bibles.”
“Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.”

Source : "Built to Last". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 2012.
“Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be.”
“The first person you lead is you.”
“Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.”
“To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in the their advance towards man's final end.”

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