"It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?""

-- David Hare

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“We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention.”

Source : "Except the Lord Build the House …" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. June 1971.
“Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.”
“To some degree, the critic arises out of that negativity bias in that our brains are oriented towards threat and toward survival. The critic really started as a survivor mechanism in early infancy and childhood when we were trying to navigate our early family system and culture; when we're learning how to fit in so we could optimize that flow of love and affection. It was an internal voice telling us to shut certain patterns and reactions down, that negativity bias that's always looking for what's wrong, looking for the threat.”
“If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
“Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.”

Source : Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.politico.com. August 30, 2012.
“When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess”
“Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset. All things were working together for his good! And so, troubled soul, the "much tribulation" will soon be over, and as you enter the "kingdom of God" you shall then see, no longer "through a glass darkly" but in the unshadowed sunlight of the Divine presence, that "all things" did "work together" for your personal and eternal good.”

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