"In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs."

-- Christopher Lasch

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“The NYPD never really had anything to do with it. This is stuff I did on my own time. It just so happened to be that I was a cop for my career. It was my religious belief. The NYPD very wisely stayed away from that. I was grateful that they let me do what I needed to do without getting involved because when you're a cop the NYPD controls you 24/7.”
“You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.”
“Nothing in the Christian life is more important than forgiveness-our forgiveness of others and God's forgiveness of us.”

Source : John F MacArthur (2011). “The MacArthur New Testament Commentary Set of 31 volumes”, p.374, Moody Publishers
“I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.”
“Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.”
“The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.”
“here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.”
“I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.”

Source : Maurice Jarre's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 25, 1985.

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