"It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda."

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Source : "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 189, September 19, 2006.

John C. Danforth

#Knowing Quotes #Inspire Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Oil is also essential for military operations. No other substance, no other raw material, is so vital for the prosecution of warfare, than petroleum. And the United States being the world's only global power, is totally dependent on petroleum.”

Source : "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.
“Anneâ€™s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queenâ€™s; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!”
“...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.”
“That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice”
“It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even state governments, is that there is no more complete end-to-end weapon system in the inventory of war machines than the child soldierMan has created the ultimate cheap, expendable, yet sophisticated human weapon at the expense of humanity's own future: its children.”
“We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.”
“Who knew there were so many ghosts to be busted in the world?”
“I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.”

Source : "Happy Endings' Zachary Knighton talks comedy and T-shirts". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. April 4, 2012.

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