"A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about."

-- John Robert Seeley

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“Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.”
“There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.”
“A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level, should certainly have more understanding of his responsibility to treat God's creation with sensitivity, and should develop his talents to do something to beautify his little spot on the earth's surface.”

Source : Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”
“I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“I'm always going to be under a microscope, and I haven't always handled it well.”
“So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!”
“Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.”
“We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don't realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you.”

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