"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands."

-- Richard Thompson

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“A Christian is not simply a person who is forgiven and goes to heaven. A Christian, in terms of his or her deepest identity, is a saint, a spiritually born child of God, a divine masterpiece, a child of light, a citizen of heaven.”

Source : Neil T. Anderson (2010). “Victory Over the Darkness (Large Print 16pt)”, p.34, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Eternity was in our lips and eyes.”
“I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.”
“There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so angry, and anti-Castro. I found out as soon as we got there. The people were treated terrible. The conditions were terrible. I can see why people risk their lives and limbs to get out. (Fidel Castro) lives like a king and won't help anybody, and has everybody scared to death. Nobody lives a normal life. It was still a good experience, but I thought we should just play that one game.”
“If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.”

Source : Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1908). “The New York idea: a comedy in four acts”
“When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.”
“Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.
“Love is the real power. It's the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with--everyone blooms.”

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