"As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but Iâ€™ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all."

-- Mark Batterson

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“I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.”
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.”

Source : "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.
“If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.”

Source : "The hours" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 12, 2012.
“For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.”

Source : Sir Thomas Wyatt (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.84
“Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isnâ€™t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.”
“I really try to avoid, you know, rolling out the history. The people are so important to me, and what happens to them, how they react, how things happen to them, this is what is important. I feel that if I can tell THAT story well, then people will go and Google the rest and fill in what they need to know.”
“The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.”

Source : Gerald Gunther, John Marshall (1969). “John Marshall's Defense of McCulloch V. Maryland”, p.26, Stanford University Press
“It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.”

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