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“This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.”
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“you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.”
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“You know, I've learned that sometimes you can only see what you want to see by changing where you stand. And standing somewhere unexpected can lead to unexpected discoveries.”
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“Many people entertain the idea that Christianity,like almost any other religion,is basically a system of beliefs-you know, a set of doctrines or a code of behavior, a philosophy, an ideology. But that's a myth. Christianity is not at all like Buddhism or Islam or Confucianism. The founders of those religions said (in effect), 'Here is what I teach. Believe my teachings. Follow my philosophy.' Jesus said, 'Follow me'(Matthew 9:9). Leaders of the world's religions said, 'What do you think about what I teach?' Jesus said, 'Who do you say I am?'(Luke 9:20)”
Source : Josh McDowell, Bob Hostetler (2011). “Don't Check Your Brains at the Door”, p.62, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.”
Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.237, Canongate Books
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“If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.”
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“I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.”
Source : "Kathryn Bigelow: 'Zero Dark Thirty' has no agenda". Interview with Rohit Vats, www.news18.com. January 17, 2013. 
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“We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.”
