"Take Christ out of the gospel, and you take its very heart out. He has not only originated a system, but He has put Himself into it, as its very life and soul and power."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 288, 1895.

Herrick Johnson

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“I also believe that when people are going through difficult situations in life... it causes them to search a lot more. They search life and search their soul. When youâ€™re searching, youâ€™re suddenly a lot more open to the world around you, to the possibilities, to things you never thought about before. â€” When youâ€™re happy, you donâ€™t question the world so much. When youâ€™re lost, you question everything. The very reason why it is so essential to human self-discovery”
“It doesn't matter in MMA if you're a woman or a man. You're going to fight 5 rounds, 5 minutes (per round). If they want a real world champion, then the fights should be 12 rounds, 3 minutes (per round) for a woman boxer and you'll weed out some of the world championship fighters.”
“Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful. I remember going in there and seeing the ballerinas trotting in there like they were prize horses, with their hair, their sunglasses. Really amazing. They were all White Russians. This is where [Leon] Theremin met a lot of people, and where the KGB eventually picked him up.”
“Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.”
“To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.”
“The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.”
“Life happens at intersections.”
“With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.”

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