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I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#against #because #congregation #discriminate #doing

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#children #day #god #got #half

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#divide #fail #into #movements #sections

Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#book #books #changed #favorite #feel

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#being #celebrated #comfortable #compliments #confident

I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#baker #billie #billie holiday #black #called

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#artist #being #dream #her #illustrator

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#character #comedy #diversified #even #great

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#against #alleging #any #crime #crown

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed? ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #conduct #crown #different #disposition