"Worship is the common sense of faith in a life to come; and the hours we devote to it will assuredly be among those upon which we shall reflect with most thankful joy when all things here shall have fallen into a very distant background, and when through the Atoning Mercy our true home has been reached at last."

-- Henry Parry Liddon

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“At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.”
“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”
“Knowledgeâ€”like a nailâ€”is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.”
“I was in such a state of mental shock and quickly spiraled into a depression at the multitude of loss. My husband, I thought, was going to leave me. I was cut off from this mentor and someone I cared for very much, David Petraeus, who also did nothing to stand up for me and in fact, empowered his surrogates to throw me under the bus, and that was devastating.”

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“Itâ€™s impossible,â€ he snapped. â€œWhy?â€ â€œBecause Iâ€™m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I canâ€™t be celibate. Everyone knows that.”
“UFC is not a competitor to the WWE because we are entertainment and UFC is competitive sport. It's very different.”

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“Finn whispered, "What has a head, thorax, and abdomen, but stands six feet tall?" "A snowman?”
“Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely spaced voicings. Dfferent textures to get very warm chords. Sometimes you're setting up strange chords by placing a chord in front of it that's going to set it off like a diamond in a gold band. It's not just finding interesting chords, it's how you sequence them, like stringing together pearls on a string. ... Interesting chords will compel interesting melodies. It's very hard to write a boring melody to an interesting chord sequence.”

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