"I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador."

-- Sammy Cahn

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“If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.”

Source : "Q&A: The Rev Jesse Jackson". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.
“When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me”
“Everything I need to know is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me. All is well in my life.”
“Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists; particular events must take place in it, the probability of which (before the event) was infinitesimal. At the present time we have no legitimate grounds for either asserting or denying that life got off to but a single start on earth, and that, as a consequence, before it appeared its chances of occurring were next to nil. ... Destiny is written concurrently with the event, not prior to it.”
“I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.”
“The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.”

Source : John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.176
“I'm not really a foodie; I could eat the same thing every night, and I go to restaurants that I can walk to.”
“Your job, your invitation from the Universe, is to give people back to themselves. You can do this every day, in a hundred ways. All you have to do is look for the best in that person, and then show it to them, right then and there. Describe it. Admire it. Thank them for it. Why not practice it with the first three people you encounter after reading this?”

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