"The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus."

-- Pat Martino

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“Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.”
“The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language.”
“Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around us makes this seem possible. But isn't that an idea of only minor importance? Doesn't every human being, no matter which era he lives in, always have to reckon with being accountable to God at any moment? Can I know whether I'll be alive tomorrow morning? A bomb could destroy all of us tonight. And then my guilt would not be one bit less than if I perished together with the arth and the stars.”
“Sorry, but I have plans elsewhere,â€ William said darkly. â€œIâ€™m leaving tomorrow morning, and Iâ€™ll be gone for a few weeks.â€ â€œWhat plans?â€ â€œDoesnâ€™t matter why I kept you in the dark. Iâ€™m going and thatâ€™s final.â€ â€œYou canâ€™t go without me,â€ Gilly said. â€œI can and I will.â€ â€œYou promised to protect me always. How can you protect me if youâ€™re gone?â€ â€œI didnâ€™t lie to you. I will always protect you,â€ William told her gently. He stood, reached for her, but realized what he was doing and dropped his arms to his sides. â€œYou have to trust me on this.”
“Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.”
“Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.”
“Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.”
“Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for the whole movements of the heavenly bodies; which all became verifications of what Newton supposed to be the law of the solar system. Adopt the hypothesis that Jesus was what He is represented, and the whole of the books and the history becomes a verification.”

Source : James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics”, p.307

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