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“Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.”
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“If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2.”
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“The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.”
Source : Gerald Durrell (1989). “The Amateur Naturalist”, Alfred A. Knopf
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“Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers ...”
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“It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.”
Source : Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn
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“We are in a period called post. In previous periods, anti-Semitism was always direct. Today's anti-Semitism isn't direct. If you say today that the Jews are absolute evil, or Israel is absolute evil, you must say Israeli is committing genocide against the Palestinians. It is very rare to find a Western politician who repeats these things.”
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“The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!”
Source : Ford Madox Ford (2012). “It Was the Nightingale”, p.128, Carcanet
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“Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.”