"It devolves upon the United States to help motorize the world."

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Walter Chrysler

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“The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.”
“From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.”
“I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.”
“Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?”
“The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.”
“Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.”

Source : "Quote of the Week: William James on Theology". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. June 04, 2012.
“There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps Iâ€™m luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good.”
“We are all a people in need. We are not perfect. We are not machines. We make mistakes. We need grace. We need compassion. We need help at times. We need other people. And that's okay.”

Source : Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.84, Penguin

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