"One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left."

-- William Matthews

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“The truth will always have a market.”

Source : Jean Shepherd (2010). “The Ferrari in the Bedroom”, p.7, Broadway Books
“Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.”
“At one time I was praying for the salvation of sinners, and the Saviour appeared on the cross by me, and talked with me; I laid my hand on his mangled body, and looked up in his smiling face. Another time I was meditating upon the love of God in giving his only Son to die for sinners, and of the beautiful home he was preparing for those who love him, and I seemed to float away, and was set down in the Beautiful City. Oh, the glorious sight that met my view can never be expressed by mortal tongue”

Source : Maria Woodworth-Etter (1997). “Signs & Wonders”, p.10, Whitaker House
“I like films to be complete in their written form.”

Source : "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.
“I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.”
“The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on womenâ€™s freedoms in southern Somalia â€“ that type of mentality â€“ thatâ€™s what I had to deal with in captivity.”
“The difference between the truth of God and revelation is very simple. Truth is where God's been. Revelation is where God is. Truth is God's tracks. It's His trail, His path, but it leads to what? It leads to Him. Perhaps the masses of people are happy to know where God's been, but true God chasers are not content just to study God's trail, His truths; they want to know Him. They want to know where He is and what He's doing right now.”
“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.”

Source : Maggie Nelson (2009). “Bluets”, p.28, Wave Books

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