"Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there."

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Source : "The time of his life" by William Cook, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2004.

Richard Pryor

#Woods Quotes #Quiet Quotes #Like You Quotes

“Control the things you can control .”
“My job is to make myself available to play to the best of my ability. Mentally, I've got to stay ready to play every day.”
“When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.”
“Karate-Do is a lifetime study”
“Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.”

Source : John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.14, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“I really like the idea of consumption tax, and most countries have a pretty serious consumption tax. It's called a value-added tax or a goods and services tax ... It's a sales tax. It doesn't tax labor, it doesn't tax savings or investment - it taxes consumption.”
“If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.”
“It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people.”

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