"I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good."

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Source : Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004

James McGreevey

#Believe Quotes #Sake Quotes #Torture Quotes

“Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.”
“Those willing to die will live, and those willing to live will die.”
“Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.”
“A life without music is an error.”
“Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.”
“Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.”
“It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.”
“As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will eventually allow you to probe eternity in the final movement of Beethovenâ€™s last sonata. Imagine that you are scrubbing the grout in your bathroom and are told that removing every last particle of mildew will somehow enable you to deliver the Gettysburg Address.”

Source : "Every Good Boy Does Fine" by Jeremy Denk, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2013.

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