"One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank."

-- D. Elton Trueblood

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“When I receive a new role, I completely become my character.”
“This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of Englishit is a problem for the Department of Justice. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.”

Source : Speech at a Florida Republican dinner, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 28, 1970.
“A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.”
“I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.”
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”

Source : On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)
“I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.”
“Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.”
“The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.”

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