"We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through."

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Source : Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.49, Open Road Media

Sam Levenson

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“Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.”
“Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.”

Source : "The LikeMe Lighthouse: A New Beacon of Hope for Kansas City’s LGBT Residents" by Chely Wright, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2012.
“A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.”
“Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.”

Source : "Feist: A Pop Star With A Punk-Rock Past". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. September 30, 2011.
“I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality. I think food can be dangerous to write about because if you don't manage to mediate it somehow, it can be the worst sort of greeting card.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".”
“As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.”
“Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.”

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