"And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?."

-- William Wilberforce

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“Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country.”
“The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.”
“He loves the sparkling fountains and their cascades and says the strangest things as he watches them. they look like stars breaking. Or, They look like Mama's diamonds. Or, They look like all the souls in heaven.”
“How do you humiliate and demean someone and then expect him or her to care about product quality.”
“Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.”

Source : Chris Evert Lloyd, Chris Evert, Neil Amdur (1982). “Chrissie, My Own Story”, Simon & Schuster
“We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.”

Source : Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.40, Macmillan
“Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs.”
“The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs, which create new opportunities, and all sorts of new forms spring up... So, quite often, the reasons for creativity depend on accidents or disasters that prevent the normal habits being carried out.”

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