"Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?"

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Source : Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.112, University of Chicago Press

Stephen A. Douglas

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“Only grown-up men are scared of women.”

Source : "Fictional character: Kurt". "The Sound of Music", www.imdb.com. 1965.
“Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.”
“You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach”
“God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the first principle of all things, there can be no real composition whatever in God. Now, in an utterly simple being there can be nothing that is not that simple being itself. In God, therefore, whatever really is, is the same as God, is the same as that which is, is the same as that which subsists, and hence necessarily subsists.”
“Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.”
“We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.”
“We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old questions, but a new set of questions.”

Source : Brian D. McLaren (2010). “A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith”, p.18, Harper Collins
“My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.”

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