"My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem."

-- Rudolph A. Marcus

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“The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship.”
“I've always known that if I got the right opportunity and the right system, I could be successful.”
“New York is so diverse. When you're on the street or in the subway, you're experiencing more of the diversity of New York.”
“Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.”
“The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”
“It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.”
“I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.”
“Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them.”

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