"In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future"

-- Daniel J. Boorstin

#Community Quotes #Vision Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“Theres a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.
“Suppose several boys are moving along a particular road and one boy falls into a drain, his dress and his body, become dirty. Other people, passers-by, will laugh at him, but when the boy's father sees his boy in that condition, what is he to do? Will he laugh at his own son? No! What will he do?”
“Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.”
“I love working in Texas anywhere.”
“When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.”
“Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.”
“But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1837). “The Preacher's Manual: Including Clavis Biblica, and A Letter to a Methodist Preacher”, p.59
“I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.”

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