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A lot of NBA GMs have asked me about me why I changed my middle name to Trill. Actually, the reason why I filed the paperwork to change my name was so that I could officially add my mother's last name, Stein, to my own. My mom is my best friend, and I wanted to honor her. ”
Everything can change. You can always have hope. ”
I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives. ”
When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights. ”
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. ”
I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change. ”
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. ”
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. ”
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army. ”
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward. ”