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“God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.”
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“This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out...”
Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.
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“So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.”
Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf
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“lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.”
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“He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he's moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain. He who spends his life moving toward his treasures has reason to rejoice. Are you despairing or rejoicing?”
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“I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.”
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“This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.”
Source : Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.664, Broadway Books
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“I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.”