"Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq”
“When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.”

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“I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.”
“It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.”
“If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn't wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them.”
“Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.”
“A running machine, that glides over mud, crud and goop.”
“A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.”

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