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Don’t sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.

Bob Jones, Sr.

The traveler in me is desperate to explore this gorgeous city but the lover in me refuses to see anywhere but him.
SHRUTHI SAGAR

Desperate Explore Himself Lover Refuse Travel
We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Ourselves Scripture Thinking
True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
JOHN DONNE

Heaven Joy Place Safety True World
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
YVES SAINT LAURENT

Beaubourg Cubism Film Happy Make Old Painting See
Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.
ZINEDINE ZIDANE

Beautiful Game Gift Player Talent
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Born Oneself Woman
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
NICK CAVE

Artistic Labor Process
The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Devotion Discover Find Important Little Thing
Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it’s something you’re tremendously passionate about.
STEVE PAVLINA

Football Hands Passion Tremendous
When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Body Cell Ground Hyperspace Phone Somewhere
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots – suspicion.
DEMOSTHENES

Guard Known Safety Suspicious
Welcome to prekindergarten! You will not die if you discover that there are more lines out there than just your own. In fact, you’ll discover that you will have an advantage if you know more of them!
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Facts Justice Lines
There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
BENJAMIN GRAHAM

Investing Principles Safety
I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.
BETH KEPHART

Believe Different Friends
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
SAMUEL BECKETT

End Greatness Light Myself Patience Shadow Shine
None better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.
AELRED OF RIEVAULX

Better Consolation Cure Friend Happiness Joy Love Pure Share Suited Temporal Time
I think you have to start taking a few risks and sometimes they don’t pay off.
BEN WATT

Pay Risk Start Thinking
My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Faith Feeling Himself Myself
Most businesses change in character and quality over the years, sometimes for the better, perhaps more often for the worse. The investor need not watch his companies’ performance like a hawk; but he should give it a good, hard look from time to time.
BENJAMIN GRAHAM

Character Giving Years
Too much of anything can make you sick, even the good can be a curse – Cheryl Cole
CHERYL COLE

Curse Much Sick Too
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer would be, “Yes”, And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be “No.”
AARON COPLAND

Art Ask Music Problem Quite State
When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Boy Estate Grown Man Meddle Proud Shall Tell Toy
Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.
BANKSY

Annoying Idiot Two
All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
WALT WHITMAN

Awake Instrument Music
I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it’s nice to be wanted as a writer.
BONNIE JO CAMPBELL

Nice Running Teaching
Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Art Mean Space
The best apology against false accusers is silence.
JOHN MILTON

Apology Best Fake Silence

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