"The only menace is inertia."

-- Saint-John Perse

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“My music is for real women and it's about real women and I am a real woman.”
“People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.”
“I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach there's no way I'm taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, 'Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.'”
“Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.”
“The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.”
“Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.”
“God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.”

Source : Ray C. Stedman (2011). “Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity”, p.106, Discovery House

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