"There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be."

-- Abbey Lincoln

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Input Quotes

“What do you mean by praying that God will have mercy upon all men, and save them with an everlasting salvation, and then tell the congregation that God has done all He can to save them, and the matter rests with them, whether they will be saved or not?...if God has done all He can, why pray for Him do more? And if He has not done all He can, why tell the people He has?”
“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
“If you do nothing there will be no results”
“Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.”

Source : Asa Gray (1973). “Letters of Asa Gray”
“Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must deeply understand that things could be much worse but aren't! To not do that is to always be less happy than he could be.”
“There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity,”
“Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me”

Source : "'Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". TIME Asia interview, www.cnn.com. December 27, 1999.
“A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.”

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