"The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn."

-- Warren W. Wiersbe

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“The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.111, Vintage
“The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.”
“We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.”

Source : Final ABC broadcast, April 5, 2005.
“We shall drink to our partnership. Do you like gin? It is my only weakness.”

Source : "Fictional character: Doctor Pretorius". "Bride of Frankenstein", www.imdb.com. 1935.
“Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life....My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something.”
“I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.”

Source : "Guns N' Roses DJ Ashba: On Overcoming Obstacles with a Guitar". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
“Business is essentially applied rationality: a systematic process of thinking that produces a real-world result. Instead of mortgaging your life to go to business school, it's possible to dramatically increase your knowledge of business on your own time and with little cost - without setting foot inside a classroom.”
“Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don't trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have done the same thing in poetry, but sometimes I feel more fluent in poetry than in prose, and as a consequence perhaps I might pass too quickly by a thing that I might, in prose, have struggled merely to articulate. That struggle creates space, and it seems to me a particular kind of space into which memory flows easily. I suspect I think better in poetry, however.”

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