"My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains . . . For I feel that the best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer."

-- Ma Rainey

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“It's hard to align with money if you think that it is evil and nasty. But once you come to an understanding that money is neutral, it's easy to see that having money does not necessarily deprive somebody else. There's no reason why you can't be very rich and still be an extremely spiritual and wonderfully generous person-aligned to the God Force-with a huge heart, and compassion for everyone you meet.”

Source : "Can Toby Young's free school succeed?". Interview with Peter Wilby, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2011.
“I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did.”
“We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.”
“I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.”
“When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.”
“One of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics.”

Source : N. David Mermin (1990). “Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age”, p.15, Cambridge University Press
“Emotion brings in the dimension of bonding or tuning in: An experience that touches your heart makes the meaning that much more personal.”
“The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.”

Source : Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]”, p.300, Aeterna Press

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