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Encounters taking the form of challenge-and-response are the most illuminating kind of events a for student of human affairs if he believes, as I believe, that one of the most distinctive characteristics of Man is the he is partially free to make choices.... Encounters are the occasions in human life on which freedom and creativity come into play and on which new things are brought into existence. Arnold J. Toynbee
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written? heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world. Angela Carter
We will have have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones, these shall vote by tombstones. It is all quite regular and official, for most tombstones like most ballot papers, are marked with a cross. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a cheap bolt out of my new used car because he or she needed to keep me away for a few days until just the moment when my old friend most needed me to help her mother move into whatever comes next. Maybe nothing conscious helped to stall me so that I would be there when I could be most useful. Or maybe it did. I’ll never know for sure. And anyway, it doesn’t really matter. Anne Lamott
You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness. Paulo Coelho
Haruki Murakami quote: "The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that..."
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. Haruki Murakami
At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone. Andy Warhol
Rhonda Byrne quote: "You become what you think about most.. But you also attract..."
You become what you think about most.. But you also attract what you think about most. (John Assaraf) Rhonda Byrne
People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past. Nicholas Sparks
Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. C. S. Lewis
Christopher Hitchens quote: "How is the United States at once the most conservative and..."
How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth? Christopher Hitchens
Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr. Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off. Haruki Murakami
I had no premonition that the Soviet Union was to become one of the most hideous tyrannies that the world had ever known, and Stalin the most cruel and unscrupulous of the merciless Russian tsars. This book should therefore be read as a basically reliable account of what the revolutionists thought they were doing in the interests of a better world. Edmund Wilson
W. H. Auden quote: "The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the..."
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable. W. H. Auden
It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience. Aldous Huxley

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