"I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game."

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Source : "Imus in the Morning" with Don Imus, March 29, 2007.

Don Imus

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“I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.”
“We learn to dwell with God by learning the practices of hospitality, listening, forgiveness, and reconciliation- the daily tasks of life with other people. Stability in Christ is always stability in community”

Source : Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.19, Paraclete Press
“Prayer moves the arm Which moves the world, And brings salvation down.”
“I believe in an ultimate decency of things.”
“She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."”
“Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream....”
“Although the world places a premium on the latest things, some realities are discovered by looking into the past.”
“Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.”

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