"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."

-- W. E. B. Du Bois

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“I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver thats fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.”
“I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.”
“Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable color. Each hill revealed a shade or tint that occured in no other. The nearest was cobalt blue, another was saffron yellow, then came crimson red, then indigo, apple green, sky blue, orange, peach, mauve, turquoise blue, lilac, moss green, ruby red, burnt umber, Indian yellow, vermillion, lapis lazuli, and so on from horizon to horizon. And between the hill, separating color from color, flowed streams of gold and silver sand.”
“I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.”
“The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know â€” the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to beâ€¦. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.”

Source : Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.115, Simon and Schuster
“Art is an attempt to integrate evil.”
“If all the evidence is weighed carefully and fairly, it is indeed justifiable, according to the canons of historical research, to conclude that the sepulcher of Joseph of Arimathea, in which Jesus was buried, was actually empty on the morning of the first Easter. And no shred of evidence has yet been discovered in literary sources, epigraphy, or archaeology that would disprove this statement.”

Source : Paul L. Maier (1991). “In the Fullness of Time: A Historian Looks at Christmas, Easter, and the Early Church”, p.203, Kregel Publications
“Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away”

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