"Every day there are many opportunities to be nice---or not so nice."

-- Rex Lee

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“Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves - there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? - are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help - can you face him honestly?).”
“Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.”
“Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.”
“What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?”
“I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.”

Source : David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns
“Acting politely in front of someone black and/or gay and then making horrible claims about their intelligence or worth as human beings after they leave the room is not kindness - it's hypocrisy.”
“All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.”

Source : Interview with James Cramer at Kemper Insurance Open in Potomac, Maryland, www.asapsports.com. June 3, 2000.
“People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.”

Source : Electronic Musician magazine, December 1986.

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