"Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz."

-- Charles Mingus

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“I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.”
“We're our own worst enemies a lot of the time, but I still blame men.”
“I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.”
“The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.”
“This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.”
“I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college”
“Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.”

Source : M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.398, Simon and Schuster
“God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.”

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