"People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out."

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Source : "What Are You Going to Do With That?". www.chronicle.com. October 3, 2010.

William Deresiewicz

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell”
“The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.”

Source : William Stringfellow, Bill Wylie Kellermann (1994). “A Keeper of the Word: Selected Writings of William Stringfellow”, p.165, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.”
“Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.”
“And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb; for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.”
“I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.”
“Great individuals make great successes out of failure.”
“They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.”

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