"You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes."

-- Michael Cunningham

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“The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity that gives me some hope that the human race won't commit suicide, though I still wouldn't count on it.”
“Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.”
“The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.”

Source : Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.7, Courier Corporation
“After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes”
“I've been born, and once is enough.”
“In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is inescapable that Ringo was the catalyst for the others. He certainly completed the jigsaw and The Beatles, with Ringo, became a magnet for the great camera artists of the world, a target for the jaded, lately hostile eyes of people who had hardly known that popular music existed.”

Source : Brian Epstein (2011). “A Cellarful of Noise”, p.72, Souvenir Press
“The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.”

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