"We read the future by the past."

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Source : Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.164, University of Virginia Press

Alexander Crummell

“When your child is looking up at you and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.”

Source : "Westlife's Shane Filan talks about crippling bankruptcy and losing £18 million" by Victoria Garo-Falides, www.mirror.co.uk. August 9, 2013.
“When I say I'm instinctive [in writing], I do feel like I need to hide what I'm doing from myself. My mind just needs to be able to operate untrammeled.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com
“Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.”
“To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.”

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“God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, â€˜I am here.â€™”

Source : Louie Giglio, Stuart Hall (2011). “Wired: For a Life of Worship Leader's Guide”, p.31, Multnomah
“Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.”

Source : John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.181, A&C Black
“The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.”

Source : Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.313, Agate Digital
“In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.”

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