"I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves."

-- Harriet Tubman

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“The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.”
“If we do not understand our sin, we will not understand the kind of savior we need.”
“Faith that trusts on Jesus alone for salvation, and not on your respectable life, and the obedience that follows Him, are the indispensable steps to salvation. You admit that you have not taken these decisive steps. Then, however near you are, you are not in Christ.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 229, 1895.
“I'm tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, "Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere."”

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“In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.”
“When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.”
“It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.”
“The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.”

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