"I love everything about you that hurts."

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Source : Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.70, Grove Press

Patrick Marber

“I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material,”
“God’s grace in saving miserable sinners has been replaced by heretical teaching, such as saying that it is because we are so valuable that Christ came to redeem us. Not all who hold self-esteem views go so far, but many do.”

Source : "Competent to Counsel: An Interview with Jay Adams". Tabletalk Interview, tabletalkmagazine.com. February 2014.
“A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.”
“Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.”
“A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.”

Source : John Allen Paulos (2013). “Beyond Numeracy”, p.23, Vintage
“The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.”
“A testimony is a conviction, a quiet inward certainty of the reality of the living God, of the divinity of His Beloved Son, of the restoration of Their work in this time. It demands that we do what He has asked us to do.”
“He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.”

Source : Christopher Pearse Cranch (1844). “Poems”, p.38

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