"Apparently thereâ€™s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, itâ€™s totally shocked to still be aliveâ€”so it sings this really beautiful song."

-- Gus Van Sant

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“The resilience and the resourcefulness of people to make a better life, to survive, to give their children something better than they had, is so inspiring. I look at how hard it must be to get up every day and fight that battle and I think, Wow, anything I'm doing just has to be in service.”

Source : "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
“After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions.”
“Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”
“And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.”
“As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.”
“To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.”

Source : Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.37, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“As Governor of my country, IÂ have been an enemy to its enemies;Â I have slain the English;Â I have mortally opposed the English King;Â I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.”
“I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.”

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