"Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really."

-- Richard Rohr

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“I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.”
“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.”
“In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.”

Source : Stephen Leacock (1939). “Model memoirs and other sketches from simple to serious”
“Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.”
“On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.”
“The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.”
“To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.”

Source : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 145), 2002.
“How rare to stare into the face of death... Something I never intend to do again.”

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