"The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No different weight is given to one or the other.”
“We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.”
“Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.”
“Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.”
“If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.”

Source : "Minister's second chance for stardom" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. May 06, 2004.
“Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away.”
“Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.”
“It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.”

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