"the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift."

-- Alice B. Toklas

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“The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.”
“Getting or giving anything is about social skills. The world is about being comfortable where you are and making people comfortable, and that's what social skills are”
“There was definitely a period when I just felt out of sync with earth.”
“Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.”

Source : "Ethiopia: Empire in Revolution". Book by David Ottaway and ‎Marina Ottaway, 1978.
“I could go play some songs for two hours every week - play whatever I wanted to - and then also spend that time putting more music on my computer and getting into more things. It definitely informs the way that I think about music and I think in general, made me a more open-minded consumer of music.”
“I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.”
“Is it our task to force the biblical doctrine of God to answer to modern culture, or (is it our task) to address modern culture with the biblical doctrine of God? If modern culture-or any culture-establishes the baseline for the doctrine of God, such a doctrine will certainly bear little resemblance to the God of the Bible.”
“Until the wolf shall lay with lamb, we'd better be the wolves.”

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