"I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove."

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Source : Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

Os Guinness

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“Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.”
“This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.”

Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.450
“Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim.”
“Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count the trees and apples?”
“Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government.”
“I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.”
“Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.”
“When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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