"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

-- Constance Baker Motley

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“The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?”
“... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries.”

Source : "King Ludd is still dead". www.koreatimes.co.kr. October 11, 2012.
“When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.”
“Without passion, you don't have any energy, and without energy, you simply have nothing”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”
“Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.”
“If I had my way, I would declare a moratorium on public preaching of 'the plan of salvation' in America for one to two years. Then I would call on everyone who has use of the airways and the pulpits to preach the holiness of God, therighteousness of God and the law of God, until sinners would cry out, 'What must we do to be saved?' Then I would take them off in a corner and whisper the gospel to them. Such drastic action is needed because we have gospel-hardened a generation of sinners by telling them how to be saved before they have any understanding why they need to be saved.”
“The more pride we have, the more other peopleâ€™s pride irritates us”

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