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CULTURE

There’s a lot more money to be made on Wall Street. If you want real power, go to Washington. If you want sex, go into the fashion business. But if you want the whole poison cocktail in one glass–go to Hollywood.

–Actor Alec Baldwin

The only effective response to our nation’s crime problem is spiritual revival.

–N. Lee Cooper, president-elect of the American Bar Association

Cynicism has gone too far. We are becoming what the history books tell us late Rome was like: mired in decadent self-absorption and lacking virtue.

–Movie director Oliver Stone

The answer [to television] is not censorship, but more citizenship in the corporate boardroom and more active families who will turn off the trash, boycott the sponsors, and tell the executives that you hold them personally responsible for making money from glorifying violence and human degradation.

–Senator Bill Bradley

LISTENING

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

–Peter Drucker

He who can no longer listen to his brother will soon no longer be listening to God, either.

–Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Figure out what went wrong, not who was wrong, when communication breaks down.

–Tom Nash

PERSEVERANCE

Being positive is part of being a hero–maybe the hardest part, because if you are a hero you’re smart enough to know all the reasons why you should be discouraged.

— Michael Dorris

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

–Louis Pasteur

Coping with difficult people is always a problem, especially if the difficult person happens to be yourself.

–Anonymous

COMMUNITY

It takes a village to raise a child.

–African proverb

The height of our love for God will never exceed the depth of our love for one another.

–Patrick Morley

Ideally when Christians meet as Christians to take counsel together, their purpose is not–or should not be–to ascertain what is in the mind of the majority but what is in the mind of the Holy Spirit–something which may be quite different.

–Margaret Thatcher