"The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined."

-- Ashley Montagu

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“No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.”
“All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you're not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if you'll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you'll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time.”
“Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that.”

Source : Virginia C. Andrews (1980). “Petals on the wind”, Pocket
“The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.”
“You will never win if you never begin.”
“I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.”

Source : "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. November 22, 2006.
“We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.”
“Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]”

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