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“Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth”
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“When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?”
Source : "Phife Dawg: Farewell to the Five-Foot Assassin With the Roughneck Business" by Sarah Larson, www.newyorker.com. March 23, 2016.
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“There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.”
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“A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.”
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“Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.”
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“I have a whole system down for returning online shopping: a tape gun, a printer for return labels. That has replaced traditional window shopping in my life, as I've gotten busier.”
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“A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people †such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God †we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?”
Source : Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.141, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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“I never thought I could win the French Open.”
Source : "Li Na of China keeps feet on ground after historic French Open victory" by Simon Cambers, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.