"I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know."

-- Billie Holiday

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“The superior man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.”
“There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the model of responsible statesmanship. I think that is a misconception, the idea that Lincoln knows what's possible and the abolitionists don't.”

Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.
“Donâ€™t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”
“Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with the detritus of empty hours wasted minutes years of repetition and time that has been killed.”
“Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.”
“Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.”
“I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.”

Source : "Drinking Beer and Playing Pinball with The Newsroom's John Gallagher Jr". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. July 12, 2013.
“We think of the Christian life as a â€˜changed lifeâ€™ but it is not that. What God offers us is an â€˜exchanged life,â€™ a â€˜substituted life,â€™ and Christ is our Substitute within.”

Source : Watchman Nee (2006). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.119, Hendrickson Publishers

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