"There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“It's true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and faithfully preach those truths which are calculated to bring about a revival.”
“I bought into Saks as a personal investment because, when I was a young man and went to America for the first time, it seemed to me that Saks was like a cathedral of retail. I never dreamt that I could one day be a part of it. And now I am.”

Source : "A Conversation With Tod’s Owner Diego Della Valle". Interview with Blue Carreon, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2011.
“Live audiences love me because I'm singing and actually am able to f**k with people live over the mic.”

Source : Source: www.tgforum.com
“A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.”

Source : Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1963). “The Alderson story: my life as a political prisoner”, Intl Pub
“Let us be sad; it is feeling that makes us human.”
“I was very surprised how many people were earnestly reminiscing about the '80s. It's such a stupid thing to do, like, to be honestly invested in nostalgia. It never even occurred to me to do that.”
“To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self...the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source, the claiming of our place in the living conversation...”
“In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.”

Source : "Exclusive: General Hospital's Anthony Geary On Life, Death and the Future of Luke and Laura". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. October 9, 2013.

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