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Madeleine L'Engle quote: "Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star."
Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star. Madeleine L'Engle
Are we rising again?" "No. On the contrary." "Are we descending?" "Worse than that, captain! we are falling!" "For Heaven's sake heave out the ballast!" "There! the last sack is empty!" "Does the balloon rise?" "No!" "I hear a noise like the dashing of waves. The sea is below the car! It cannot be more than 500 feet from us!" "Overboard with every weight!? everything! Jules Verne
It is a dreadful truth, but it is a truth that cannot be concealed; in ability, in dexterity, in the distinctness of their views, the Jacobins are our superiors. Edmund Burke
They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness. They are overcome by some archtype; their egos have expanded psychotically so that they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off. It is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate? confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man. Philip K. Dick
Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is nonexistent here. They cannot play the game. They do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imagination to accept. What is the first question we ask about a newborn baby? Ursula K. Le Guin
Pythagoras quote: "No man is free who cannot control himself."
No man is free who cannot control himself. Pythagoras
Martin Luther King jr. quote: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that."
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Martin Luther King jr.
It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas...If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you? On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones. Carl Sagan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive..."
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She knocked a third time, three regular strokes, gentle, but perfectly distinct, and with meaning in them; for, modulate it with what cautious art we will, the hand cannot help playing some tune of what we feel , upon the senseless wood. Nathaniel Hawthorne
My work expresses an infatuation with human beings. I don’t believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon. Rebecca West
This is tantamount to saying, "My hand is weak. I cannot draw a straight line,—that is, a line which will be the shortest line between two given points,—and so, in order to make it more easy for myself, I, intending to draw a straight, will choose for my model a crooked line." The weaker my hand, the greater the need that my model should be perfect. Leo Tolstoy
There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill. Nelson Mandela
His natural taciturnity was in his favour; nothing could be more calculated to give people, especially people with property (Soames had no other clients), the impression that he was a safe man. And he was safe. [...] How could he fall, when his soul abhorred circumstances which render a fall possible - a man cannot fall off the floor! John Galsworthy
Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down. Lawrence Durrell

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