"He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically."

-- Robert Ludlum

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“Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.”
“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
“Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky.”
“I've learned that love takes priority.”

Source : "John Ondrasik Interview from Five For Fighting". Interview with Maranda Plesant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
“When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”

Source : "Steve Kazee, ‘Once’ Star, Hits New York’s 54 Below With Original Alt-Country Show". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.
“It's impossible for one person to think of everything.”
“Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.”

Source : Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.150, Harper Collins

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