"If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Superior General of the Jesuit Order] are one and the same person."

-- James Parton

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“Well, Rickey's not one of them, so that's 49 percent right there.”
“This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.”
“To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.”
“There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We mistake kindness for weakness in individuals, too. Gandhi found the essence of Christianity to be gentleness, the exaltation of means over ends. Using violence, against us or them, to achieve peace is like beating children to get them to be good. It only works in the short term. Believe in peace, think peace, live peace. Be a building-block of peace. Make it the center of your strength.”
“By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?”
“So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or more. Just to put that in perspective, that sum could have built 200 schools in poor countries around the world for kids who desperately want an education. Then Kardashian could have helped transform the world, not just entertain it. And the schools would have lasted incomparably longer than her marriage.”
“I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy.”
“Things never happen exactly how you think they will.”

Source : David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.106, Penguin

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