"Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;"Be thou whole," say openly:"I forgive thee all."

-- Bernard of Clairvaux

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“In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.”
“Tunstell, this is your Alpha speaking. Do as I tell you. You must regurgitate now. Regurgitation is an involuntary action. You cannot simply order me to do it,â€ replied Tunstell in a small voice. â€œI most certainly can. Besides which, you are an actor.â€ Tunstell grimaced. â€œIâ€™ve never had cause to vomit onstage.”
“I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I think, for example, the reason that I was perhaps able to see sooner than some others that the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe was decaying--if not disintegrating--was that I came to it through history and through Germany, rather than through Sovietology and through Moscow. And therefore the starting point was that no empire in history has lasted forever, and this one won't either.”
“I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.”
“I've never had a problem with age; my feelings and emotions are still like those of a young woman. Thank God, I can still be surprised and excited, and I can still dream. I think that's something no one should stop doing, because it's what keeps you young!”
“I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.”
“The generosity, to me it’s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.”
“I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.”

Source : "John King, USA" with John King, edition.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.

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