"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#Country Quotes #Freedom Quotes #Real Quotes

“I used to look like an American flag. The Padre uniform makes me look like a taco. Actually, the transition has been great. Ive made 25 new friends, and I never thought I wanted to be anything other than a Dodger, but this is fun.”
“I have to choose songs that represent my personality.”
“I found the bench to be the greatest ally when I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team”
“Do we claim to believe in God? He's a missionary God. You tell me you're committed to Christ. He's a missionary Christ. Are you filled with the Holy Spirit? He's a missionary Spirit. Do you belong to the church? It's a missionary society. And do you hope to go to heaven when you die? It's a heaven into which the fruits of world mission have been and will be gathered.”
“What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.”
“There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I am alone when I write, but I am rarely lonely.”
“You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.”
“It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.”

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