"I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do."

-- John Coltrane

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“Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.”
“Bottom line, Elizaâ€” youâ€™re my home and my family, and I donâ€™t want to lose you. I could lose everything else, and as long as I still had you and a guitar I know Iâ€™d be all right. Do you get what Iâ€™m saying?”
“There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.”

Source : Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.64, The Minerva Group, Inc.
“I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.”

Source : Jonathan Tropper (2010). “This Is Where I Leave You”, p.307, Hachette UK
“I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.”
“When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.”
“[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.”

Source : Tom Wolfe (1999). “The electric kool-aid acid test”, Bantam Dell Pub Group
“Man is an appearance, God is a reality.”

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