"Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object of tender interest to the surgeon, as when he is bleeding beneath his knife. So you may be sure if you are suffering from the hand of a reconciled God, that His eye is all the more bent on you."

-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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“Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.”
“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”
“If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.”
“When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child.”
“Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come”

Source : Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.
“One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.”

Source : "Dame Joan Sutherland obituary" by Alan Blyth, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.
“Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!”
“I want someone who will adore me so much that they cannot even walk past me without touching me in some way. I want someone who will worship me, even when.. I'm sitting around in fluffy slippers with no makeup on and hair scraped back. I'm sick and tired of being on my own. Most of the time I'm fine. Some of the time I even quite enjoy it. But at this precise moment in time I'm fed up with it. I've had enough..”

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