"It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future."

-- Clay Shirky

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“God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate.”

Source : Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.15, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Cross-country running was so beautiful with all the trails and the lake regions ... very physical and also a bit spiritual, where you could come over the mountain and all of a sudden you'd see a Buddhist landscape fog.”
“I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after,”
“Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her heart may know What secret makes them so. Love, only Love.”

Source : Frank Dempster Sherman (1917). “The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman”
“If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?”
“Live by faith. Live out loud. And never stop believing God-day by day.”
“I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.”
“If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.”

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