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“I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.”
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“New York has one of the largest school systems in the country, but it's one of the best school systems in the country. I worked on an initiative called Family Strengthening. What it meant was we began to work with families, people coming out who were incarcerated, connecting them back to the family. Kids today, some of them need psychological help, not just providing for them. We have issues - we have to break cycles. We need to be accountable and we need to assess what's working and what's not working.”
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“I don't do intoxicants on tour too often. It slows me down mentally, and it feels like killing brain cells.”
Source : "Toro Y Moi". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2013. 
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“I made very clear at the time that the love of same sex couples is every bit as valuable as that of opposite sex couples but nevertheless my view actually is that marriage in the biblical sense is very clearly from the many many Christians who wrote to me on the subject in their opinion can only be between a man and a woman.”
Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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“Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.”
Source : "The Kranz Dictum". Gene Kranz's address to his branch and flight control team on the Monday morning following the Apollo 1 disaster, January 30, 1967.
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“All good poems are victories over something.”
Source : Stephen Dunn (2001). “Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry”, p.86, BOA Editions, Ltd.
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“Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.”
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“In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.”
Source : Brother Lawrence, Aeterna Press (1905). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.32, Aeterna Press
