"Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action."

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Source : George Gillespie (1846). “The Presbyterian's Armoury: and II. The works of Mr. George Gillespie, with memoir of his life and writings”

George Gillespie

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“Love and happiness inextricably combined? I wanted love stories to coincide with war stories, I wanted hope for my characters, I wanted a sense of a future. So do they. So does the reader. But perhaps I shouldn't speak for everyone when I say that love and happiness are interdependent. In my own experience, happiness came with love. Specifically, my wife. That's when my own apathy and stasis ended for good.”
“Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.”

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“I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.”
“"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"”
“I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.”
“Desire is the putting of my will into Godâ€™s concern. Itâ€™s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your arms sort of thing, which says, 'Well, Iâ€™m willing, if God would only give me a good swift kick and send me.' Thatâ€™s willingness all right. But God doesnâ€™t want willingness, He wants will! He wants your will put behind those desires.”
“I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. April 6, 2005.
“If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”

Source : "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 2, Ch. 173, c. 440 BC.

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