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Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.


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JOHN SHELBY SPONG I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of Heaven to p...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I th...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was qu...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humani...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipi...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken ...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG If I were a child of Tibet or of Arabia, I suspect the path I'd walk would be the Buddhist path ...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hi...
JACK CARROLL You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding on...
DIAHANN CARROLL ‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost yo...
LEWIS CARROLL I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times sinc...
LEWIS CARROLL She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
LEWIS CARROLL Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation jus...
PETE CARROLL Today's announcement will address immediate needs, including the housing situation as winter approac...
AILEEN CARROLL We encourage, most sincerely, that Canadians donate generously in these last few hours,
AILEEN CARROLL Half of this will go to the South Asia earthquake matching fund; the remaining will go to the two ap...
AILEEN CARROLL World Vision and Care Canada are working through their local networks on the ground to meet the need...
AILEEN CARROLL The CIDA funds that are generated in this manner will be made available to support relief, rehabilit...
AILEEN CARROLL The first thing to do .. was to make money available on the ground quickly and then to make a part o...
AILEEN CARROLL Once again, the remarkable entries received show that Canadian youth are moved by the challenges fac...
AILEEN CARROLL The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Br...
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