"Never resign. There's always a chance your opponent may drop dead before he mates you."

-- Israel Albert Horowitz

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“I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.”
“The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.”
“Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.”

Source : Walter Rauschenbusch (2013). “A Theology for the Social Gospel”, p.8, Ravenio Books
“You have to look in the mirror and see yourself. If it feels good, then I know it's for me. I don't dress to be stared at, I dress for myself.”
“If Jesus is not God, then there is no Christianity, and we who worship Him are nothing more than idolaters. Conversely, if He is God, those who say He was merely a good man, or even the best of men, are blasphemers. More serious still, if He is not God, then He is a blasphemer in the fullest sense of the word. If He is not God, He is not even good.”
“My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.”
“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.”
“The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.”

Source : Frederic Harrison (1975). “Order and Progress”, p.150, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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