"If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery."

-- John Paul Jones

#Faith Quotes #Stronger Quotes #Mastery Quotes

“Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency”
“I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head...”

Source : Laurie R. King (2014). “A Monstrous Regiment of Women”, p.124, Allison & Busby
“I do think it imperative that you recover from fear of rejection. Forgive me, but that is the sin of pride, and you must avoid that particular manifestation of the sin if you are to reach the goal . . . you hope for.”
“People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.”
“Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.”
“9/11 was not an act of war. It was a criminal act. It was a simple. Criminal act by a bunch of lunatic fanatic violent people who needed to be tracked down and apprehended and tried exactly as you would with any other lunatic violent person, like we do with our own domestic terrorists, like the guy who bombed the Oklahoma federal building.”
“Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.”
“Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.”

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