"Don't let the hand you hold hold you down."

-- Julia de Burgos

“No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.”

Source : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2001). “The Tribe of Tiger”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
“I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.”
“The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.”
“I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio, I came there with a different mood. The musicians picked up on that and we kept on going in that direction. The music became slower, which gave the bass player the time to play more notes. In 1965 I named it rocksteady. The first rocksteady song was 'Girl I've Got A Date'. That one was still a bit up-tempo, leaning towards ska. It turned the tide and made Treasure Isle the number one studio.”
“In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 22, 2011
“It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.”
“Books are the carriers of civilization... .....Books are humanity in print.”
“We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause...”

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