"We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny."

-- Philip Yancey

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“You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
“I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.”
“Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.”
“I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.”

Source : "Cecily Strong Reminds Reporters: Covering Hillary Clinton’s Appearance Isn’t Journalism" by Ashley Alman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2015.
“The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.”
“Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.”
“I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.”
“Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies were like plants, immobile, firm-rooted, nourished through long stems to the head. We might be a vapour, blowing where we listed Ours should be a war of detachment. We were to contain the enemy by the silent threat of a vast, unknown desert”

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