"There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!"

-- Duke Ellington

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“Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"”

Source : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview With James West, Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.
“We all seek purpose in life. Most of us wonder how we can make a positive difference during our brief time on earth. But asking and doing are different things.”
“The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.”

Source : James Montgomery Boice (1986). “Foundations of the Christian Faith”, p.674, InterVarsity Press
“Few in these hot, dim, strenuous times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good and making so much money - or so little, they are no longer good for themselves.”
“In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100 clicks per day. At $5 per day, marketing people scoffed and said that is too small to matter. But if you think about it, to an engineer, 100 real humans everyday giving your product a try means you can really start improving.”
“It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful...”
“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.”
“I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just need time, as I've learned over and over again. You've got to wait before you write about them.”

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