"Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre."

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Kevin Powers

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“Reality is a creation of our excesses.”
“History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.”
“Those who become hyperpolyglots are those who meet two criteria. One, they are exposed to language material. Two, they undertake learning languages as a mission as well as acquiring the personal identity as a language learner.I describe the "neural tribe theory" of hyperpolyglots, arguing that they possess an atypical neurology that is selected by some environments and not others; presumably, there have always been humans walking around with that set of neurological traits or factors, only some of whom actually use those things for languages.”
“One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.”

Source : Interview with Dag Rambraut, www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.
“Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?", and its like "No. It's not wrong. It's just that we are going to try something different."”

Source : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2011.
“The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and deserves the DEATH PENALTY. ADULTERY is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to DEATH. HOMOSEXUALITY is treason to the family, and it too, is worthy of DEATH.”

Source : "Moyers: God and Politics", TV series (1987– ). ""On Earth as It Is in Heaven, 1988.
“At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their own arbitrary rhythm. The notion that human caring, the effort to do better for people, might make a difference can seem hopelessly naive. But it isn't.”

Source : Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.10, Profile Books
“The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?”

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