"Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God."

-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

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“If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilizations escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite.”

Source : Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.11, Regnery Publishing
“It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away”

Source : "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 89,
“I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.”
“The violence at the end is about personal torture.”
“My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.”
“If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.”
“I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.”
“The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It's more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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