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My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.


Chad Channing

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WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -W...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet t...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The home is the chief school of human virtues.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...
WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING True love is the parent of humility.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vainIf learning's altar vanish from the plain.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The great hope of society is in individual character.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their use...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our wor...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to se...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our wo...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Through the vulgar error of undervaluing what is common, we are apt indeed to pass these by as of li...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when th...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out hap...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The more a person analyzes his inner self, the more insignificant he seems to himself. This is the f...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The great hope of society is in individual character
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The divine attributes are first developed in ourselves, and thence transferred to our Creator. The i...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each mome...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING What is mysterious, secret, unknown, cannot at the same time be known as an object of faith.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for wha...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent: but these a...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Life has a higher end,than to be amused.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING