"Donâ€™t underestimate the value of ironyâ€”it is extremely valuable."

-- Henry James

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“There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and the streetlights are part of the spotlight apparatus on a bare stage set up for you to walk through. You get a feeling of being listened to, so you talk aloud, softly, to see how it sounds.”
“But waiting for 'eventually' to prove the alarmists wrong is not the wisest course of action. Unfullfillable ambitions to stifle growth will devastate a world trying to deal with the complexities of economics, stability, and the environment. Quality of life depends on access to energy. Noble intentions about 'C02-free' sources of energy are not sufficient, if their agenda of eliminating coal as a source, and turning their back on nuclear, are allowed to be part of our near-term policies.”
“Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.”

Source : Debbie Macomber (2009). “Mrs. Miracle”, p.24, Harper Collins
“Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.”

Source : Address at the Leadership and Diversity Conference, Gatineau, Canada, May 19, 2004.
“Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?”
“If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friendsâ€™ houses so they donâ€™t see its backside.”
“My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.”
“This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.”

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