"I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song."

-- John Lee Hooker

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“It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.”
“Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British Â£5 and they will borrow Â£25 and spend it.”
“And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.”
“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”

Source : Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.64, Egmont UK
“Technology policy - whether we should have one and what form such a policy should take - was a core issue of the 1992 presidential campaign, and in February 1993 the Clinton administration confirmed that fostering new technologies will be a critical part of its agenda for redirecting the American economy.”

Source : "Empowering Technology: Implementing a U.S. Strategy". Book by Lewis M. Branscomb, 1993.
“It depends on your specific conception of God, because belief can equally well leave you with this constant sense that you're coming up short and you're being judged and you're not doing quite the perfect thing. You know, I was brought up very religiously, and I never totally lost that sense, you know, that I'm screwing up.”
“If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of consistent members of the Church are with one accord day by day making intercession for the extension of Christ's Kingdom.”

Source : John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”
“I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.”

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