"Though situations and circumstances arise which sometimes test our faith and patience, the Lord can be trusted to see us through."

-- Roderick L. Evans

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“Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens.”
“Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out...”

Source : "Morris Graves, the early works". Book by Theodore F. Wolff, published by Whitney Museum of American Art, p. 28, 1998.
“To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.”
“I'm not the betting kind.”
“Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.”
“Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.”

Source : David Henry Hwang (1989). “M. Butterfly”, Plume
“Rappers act so wild, and love to profile, Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.”

Source : Song: Smooth Operator, Album: It's a Big Daddy Thing
“I don't give up, and I make sure to keep my standards high.”

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