"Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?"

-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

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“Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we canâ€™t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we canâ€™t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.”
“When anger rises, think of the consequences.”
“I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.”

Source : "Rachel Johnson: 'I have a duty not to be boring'". Interview With Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2010.
“No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.”
“We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.”

Source : John Owen (1826). “The Works of John Owen”, p.187
“But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.”
“Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.”
“People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.”

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