"Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to?"

-- John Angell James

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“The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.”
“I know, if anyone does - all research workers know - how much is missed that really matters because reports have to be written in officialese. They have to be, because a lot of us can't take anything seriously unless you make it dull for them.”

Source : "Trent's Own Case". Book by E. C. Bentley and H. Warner Allen, Chapter XXI: "Aunt Judith Knits", 1936.
“I have a wonderful respect for old people.”
“Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.”
“Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.”
“Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.”
“Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.”
“Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they canâ€™t do anything because theyâ€™re tied up in knots.”

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