"If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell."

“Enthralling! The mix of absurdism and intellectualism is perfect!”

“No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!”

“Think of RepRap as a China on your desktop.”

“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.”

Source : John Perkins (2004). “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.12, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

“There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.”

“Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?); whether we have to hold to some sort of theological determinism (God ordains all that comes to pass).”

“Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's pain and that was purely to serve the listener because I knew they needed to hear something. But most of the good stuff comes from my life.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.”

Source : Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.88, PublicAffairs