"In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner."

-- Oscar Handlin

#Expectations Quotes #Outsiders Quotes #Immigration Quotes

“Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.”
“Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.”
“The golden rule would be to write a great, authentic song that is well produced and it will find its home. The audience can feel whether or not the artist is being genuine in their music. It's up to the artist to have the courage to reveal their truth through their songs.”
“Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins”
“I don't believe in Jesus or God. But I do believe that fundamentalists in religion or anything else are bad, and that they have more hate than love.”
“All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.”
“One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone.”
“Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.”

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