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“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds”
Source : Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.72, Image
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“We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.”
Source : FaceBook post by Matt Redman from Oct 12, 2013 
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“Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”
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“Genes do make a contribution to the IQ score - but a flower needs soil. The environment for poor people is so overwhelmingly powerful, it washes out the genetic effect. There is a genetic contribution to IQ, but you can't detect it when you're living in a deprived environment.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.”
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“Blessed are the happiness makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.”
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“People always say theres no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think theyre right, because it seems self-evident: nobodys going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybodys talking about.”
Source : "Rachel Johnson: the iron lady" by Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.
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“My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.”
Source : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield
