"A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do."

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Source : "Some Blues for Mr. Charlie: Obama’s Moment of Truth" by Rev. Peter Laarman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2008.

James A. Baldwin

#Thinking Quotes #Experience Quotes

“On the set I never know what day of the week it is.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. Â…By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.”
“Our dreams, like the disciplesâ€™, are always too small. We are here to fulfill Godâ€™s dreamâ€”that we will bring Him glory through a remarkably abundant life. Thatâ€™s how we find our greatest personal fulfillment, now and for eternity.”

Source : Bruce Wilkinson (2006). “Secrets of the Vine: Breaking Through to Abundance”, Multnomah
“It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.”
“What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.”
“I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.”
“If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they donâ€™t let us speak, if they kill all the priests and the bishop too, and you are left, a people without priests, each one of you must be Godâ€™s microphone, each one of you must be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is one baptized person. And that one baptized person who is left in the world is responsible before the world for holding aloft the banner of the Lordâ€™s truth and of his divine justice.”
“In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.”

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