"O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God."

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Source : Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

Phillips Brooks

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“The idea that Bentham and Mill were maximizers is the greatest stretch of all. They were progressivists, committed to improving the societies in which they lived, not utopian maximizers.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.”
“Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.”
“A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.”
“You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.”
“I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.”

Source : Interview with Kate Bosworth, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.
“You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir.”
“New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.”

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