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“I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.”
Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
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“But this too is true: stories can save us.”
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“Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.”
Source : "Ashcroft defends FBI's Mueller". www.cnn.com. May 31, 2002.
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“To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can't guarantee it just by following someone else's formula.”
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“Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.”
Source : "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.
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“The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.”
Source : Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.63, Weinstein Publishing
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“Leaders in touch with heaven can move earth”
Source : Reggie McNeal (2011). “A Work of Heart: Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders”, p.225, John Wiley & Sons
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“He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion, analogies between phenomena of a different order suggest themselves and set the imagination in motion; the mind is haunted with the sense of a vast unity not yet discoverable or nameable. There is food for contemplation which never runs short; you are gazing at an object which is always growing clearer, and yet always, in the very act of growing clearer, presenting new mysteries.”
Source : "Natural Religion".