"We don’t have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He’s for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer."

-- J. Edwin Orr

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“In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth.”
“You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.”

Source : Donald Hall (2007). “White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.”
“Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.”
“Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without them? I wonder if we aren't all a little surprised at the moment of crossover, if we don't look back over our shoulders saying, Now hold on.”
“Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.”
“Success means doing the best we can with what we have.”
“If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?”

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