"May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference."

“If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”

Source : "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays (p. 37 - 38), 1928.

“We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.”

“Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.”

“If you're having trouble, it's because you just don't know how - yet!”

“I am amazed and thrilled and unbelievably proud about my team's performance.”

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“I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.”

“Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.”

“If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.”

Source : Harry Stack Sullivan (2003). “The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry”, p.242, Psychology Press