"Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there."

-- Peter Thomas Bauer

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“Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel According to the Blues, Gary brings his vocation as a New Testament teacher together with his passion for the blues and gives the reader scholarly knowledge and wise insight.”
“On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.”
“childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.”

Source : Kate Green (1994). “Black Dreams”, Harpercollins
“I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.”
“I support British designers as much as I can.”
“I'm inspired by struggles. I've been through several really big ones in my life and I'm reminded of how God pulled me out of these certain situations and how my life was affected by that, so of course I don't like the hard times at all and I know it sounds really clichÃ© to say 'hang in there' but it's a true thing, if you're actually believing in what our creator can do.”
“We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.”

Source : "Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 13, 2011.
“What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?... What if I'm tired when I get home? What if I don't fill my days with frenetic activity?" "But one day you might wish you had”

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