"For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider."

-- B. H. Liddell Hart

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“It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.”
“We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.”

Source : William Law (1734). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].”, p.266
“I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.”
“Despite all the unresolved deep-seated problems, the U.S. is still a country where it's less important where you come from than what you do. But after 18 years of living here, I still have a German passport, a soft spot for the avant-garde and constructivists, and a heavy accent.”
“The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.”
“I don't live my life as a Christian with trepidation, feeling that perhaps I've failed to give the best gospel possible on each occasion, but realising that God's taking care of a lot through his Holy Spirit.”
“I'd never met anyone so vibrant or alive. He moved like light.”
“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.”

Source : "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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