"Many times I have thanked God for a bite of raw dog."

-- Robert Peary

“We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.”
“I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.”

Source : "Cult heroes: Helen Reddy, the 'queen of housewife pop' with a secret dark side" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2016.
“We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.”

Source : William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.22
“I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.”

Source : Bill Rodgers, Matthew Shepatin (2013). “Marathon Man: My 26.2-Mile Journey from Unknown Grad Student to the Top of the Running World”, p.293, Macmillan
“Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.”
“Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.”
“Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.”
“Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth.”

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