"No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest."

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Source : Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.30, New Directions Publishing

Joyce Cary

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“There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the damning sin. (Mark 16:16) ... Before Christ can be received, the heart must be emptied and opened: but men's heart's are full of self-righteousn ess and vain confidence (Rom 10:3).”
“Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.”
“R&b, poetry, I'd like to do everything. But I'm an entertainer and entertaining is not just music. I can do comedy; I'm one of those guys, I can stand up there with a mic. I'm not gonna freeze.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.”
“Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.”

Source : "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.
“An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.”

Source : Ben Ames Williams (1944). “Leave Her to Heaven”
“But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?”
“I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?”

Source : "In the Vaccine-Autism Debate, What Can Parents Believe?" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.

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