"Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . . . . It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic."

-- Joseph Story

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“Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.”

Source : Janette Rallison (2011). “My Unfair Godmother”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.”

Source : JamBase Interview, www.jambase.com. February 13, 2007.
“In my opinion, one should think one knows what one knows, but one should not think others know what one knows; similarly, in my opinion, one should think one should know what one knows, but one should not think others should know what one knows.”
“There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.”
“Why you don't wanna let him talk? You mad, you maaad, you maaaaad.”
“The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.”
“Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.”

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