"... he preferred being stimulated to being bored."

-- Jane Heller

“I think I gave indications early on that mine wasn't just going to be a commercial, er, career. If that were the case, then the first record would have been 10 versions of 'Loser.' I always thought it would be interesting if there was no such thing as gold and platinum records, or record deals, and people were just making music. What would the music sound like?”
“The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.”

Source : "The bomb and the opportunity" by Henry L. Stimson, Harper's Magazine, March 1946.
“For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me,”
“Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?”

Source : Song: Love Is Not Against The Law, Album: Mockingbird, 2005
“You've got to be in the moment, especially in the playoffs. If you're worried about the past, worried about what happened last game, that's a lost cause.”
“It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.”

Source : David Bryant (1984). “In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian”
“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”

Source : Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.51, Penguin
“None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful...it is not lawful for us to hate, and so we please God more when we render no requital for injury...we repay your hatred with kindness.”

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