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“There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.”
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“You know, up until later on today, I never really knew how to drink.”
Source : Mary Robison (2009). “One D.O.A., One on the Way: A Novel”, p.71, Counterpoint Press
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“It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike powerless before the advance of the Assyrians, that magical superstitions based on mere terror, or rites designed to conciliate alien gods, invade the sphere of tribal or national religion. In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.”
Source : William Robertson Smith (1889). “Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series. The Fundamental Institutions”
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“Yes, I've worked hard; and yes, I may have achieved a certain level of success-but I'm very clear about the fact that none of it would be worth it without doing the things that keep me close to God.”
Source : David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.157, Penguin
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“Many of those on the right distrust the Fed and want to eliminate its power in the belief that the private economy, including the private banks, will be much more efficient, productive and even democratic if they are left to themselves: in other words, the criticism of the Fed really reflects a desire to cripple the government in the service of increasing the power and authority of the market.”
Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
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“The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.”
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“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”
Source : "Your Spacious Self: Clear the Clutter and Discover Who You Are". Book by Stephanie Bennett Vogt, May 15, 2007.
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“Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.”
Source : John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 6”, Jazzybee Verlag
