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If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#body #by the people #catastrophic #continue #elected

So what do you do when you are stuck? The first thing I do when I am stuck is pray. But I’m not talking about a quick, Help me Lord, Sunday’s a comin’ prayer. When I get stuck I get up from my desk to head for my closet. Literally. If I‘m at the office I go over to a corner that I have deemed my closet away from home. I get on my knees and remind God that this was not my idea, it was His… None of this is new information to God… Then I ask God to show me if there is something He wants to say to prepare me for what He wants me to communicate to our congregation. I surrender my ideas, my outline and my topic. Then I just stay in that quiet place until God quiets my heart… Many times I will have a breakthrough thought or idea that brings clarity to my message. . . Like you, I am simply a mouthpiece. Getting stuck is one way God keeps me ever conscious of that fact. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#inspiration #prayer #writing-life #writing-process #change

It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them... More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show... I had like five surgeries. ↗

— Phillip Phillips

#coming #doctor #done #during #five

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#black #certain #certain feeling #cotton #developed

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#asking #asking questions #been #i #ken

The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. ↗

— Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri

#intelligence #religion #world #intelligence

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet. ↗

— Taylor Phinney

#fine #go #i #i think #learn

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#magic #religion #superstition #intelligence

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#creating #doing #done #education #generations

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#changing #current #current state #ever #history