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For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her. ↗

— Randy Travis

#because #bible #big #big influence #come

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#fingers #hand #his #history #out

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#arrive #destination #emerges #goes #going

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#dollars #gamble #give #give me #great

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools! ↗

— Alex Trebek

#college #fools #got #hired #i

When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#busy #career #children #doing #even

A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#case #choice #difficult #even #expression

On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa. ↗

— Leopold Trepper

#december #directive #hitler #known #number

The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year. ↗

— Leopold Trepper

#every #increased #left #number #people

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#civilization #curiosity #disinterested #intellectual #intellectual curiosity