"The greatest thing that can happen to the state of Queensland and the nation of Australia would be if and when we get rid of the media. Then we would live in peace and tranquility - but no one would know anything!."

-- Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen

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“I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.”
“The Church has been foreordained of God to become that people who will become so glorified that we can bring Christ back to the earth. This glorified church must make the earth God's footstool before Jesus can come again.”

Source : Earl Paulk (1985). “The wounded body of Christ”
“Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you." "I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin. "And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried.”

Source : Judith McNaught (2000). “Whitney, My Love”, p.295, Simon and Schuster
“The church seeks to help form people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive world, risk being faithful in an age of cynicism, risk being gentle among those who admire the tough, risk love when it may not be returned, because we have the confidence that in Christ we have been reborn into a new reality.”
“Edward Snowden has inspired changes and awareness, which is very important in this day and age, and sometimes egos need to be set aside, even with powerful people, and we need to look at the full picture.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.”
“The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change oneâ€™s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?”

Source : "Light Years". Book by James Salter, 2011.
“When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.”

Source : Paul Potts (1960). “Dante Called You Beatrice”, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode

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