"Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance."

-- Wynton Marsalis

#Pain Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.”
“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.”
“Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are best at.”
“The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.”
“The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.”
“The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no less a hand for being part of a larger whole, an entire body. The foot is not diminished in its freedom to be a foot by being part of a body which also contains eyes and ears. In fact, hands and feet are most free to be themselves when they coordinate properly with eyes, ears, and everything else. Cutting them off in an effort to make them truly free, truly themselves, would be truly disastrous.”
“I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.”
“If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”

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