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![“Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have.” quote by Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6cc/robert-hass-3548_existence_reading-is-a-gymnasium-for-the-imaginati_2327207.jpg)
![“Life is [perceived as] a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is…” quote by Rick Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/95e/rick-warren-230_character_life-is-perceived-as-a-series-of-problem_2336259.jpg)
![“Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his past. He forms himself by a series of denials and refusals, but he continues to be haunted by the realities that he has refused and denied. To acquire a world of his own…” quote by Mircea Eliade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/27a/mircea-eliade-3290_ancestor_do-what-he-will-he-the-profane-man-is-an_2341243.jpg)
![“What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."” quote by Denzel Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d6d/denzel-washington-1345_acting_what-we-did-shooting-fences-was-we-got-y_2344171.jpg)
