"It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion"."

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Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.120, Scholastic Inc.

Jordan Sonnenblick

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“God is going to take over the White House... He is going to take over the Oval Office... because it belongs to Him and He is going to bring all things summed up into the fullness of Christ. He is going to take that Supreme Court. He is going to turn that inside out. He is going to pray that strong man off that thing and He is going to bring the synergistic anointing of intercession and the prophetic anointing to break, to judge, to decree.... I will march into that place and declare a decree the word of the Lord boldly... He is joining the kingly and the priestly anointing.”
“It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.”
“When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.”
“Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.”

Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 2 "Stylistic Questions", p. 20), 2006.
“All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.”
“Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.”

Source : "Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 57, 1780.
“Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.”

Source : Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.
“The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.”

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