"I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise."

-- Elizabeth Emken

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“Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.”
“Christian action in the world will not be sustained or carried on in an intelligent and effective manner unless it is supported by doctrinal convictions that have achieved some degree of clarity.”

Source : "Methods in the Madness: Diversity in Twentieth-century Christian Social Ethics". Book by Anna M. Robbins, p. 266, 2004.
“How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!”
“He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.”
“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If youâ€™re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary actâ€”truth is always subversive.”
“So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.”
“In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but a microscope to investigate the creative process behind every company and its price.”
“I met a photographer who agreed to give me a few lessons; in exchange, I had to pose naked for him.”

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