"Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind."

-- Karl Barth

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“The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.”
“Indie record stores are as important to a touring musician as an incredible thrift store. I can't overstate how good it feels to place an original pressing of 'veedon fleece' in your most underused of shirts and pack it into your suitcase, anxiously awaiting the day you get home so that you can play it as though it was your reward or trophy from the long journey you had just finished embarking on.”
“I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. Iâ€™d break my wifeâ€™s legs if I played against her, but Iâ€™d never cheat her.”
“So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.”

Source : Daniel Silva (2004). “The Marching Season”, p.66, Penguin
“On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away.”
“Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.”

Source : "Rajoy Says Spain in ‘Extreme Difficulty’ as Bond Demand Drops" by Emma Ross-Thomas, www.bloomberg.com. April 4, 2012.
“The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.”
“I'd worked for Aaron Spelling before [Embraced] and I always felt like we had a nice connection. I pretty much walked in and looked at him like, "This is mine!" And by the time I was done with the audition, he was already speaking to me as if I had the role.”

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