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The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”) Yevgeny Zamyatin
Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I'm sharing my name with you. I'm putting my power into you and you must do my work. Don't listen to anyone but me. You are to be my command laid on my enemy. you'll make a hole in him through which he'll drip away until he runs dry. As he drips out darkness, we'll smile together, me inside, you outside. We'll crush him between our smiles. Margaret Mahy
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator. Fulton J. Sheen
If life? the craving for which is the very essence of our being? were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing. Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92] Northrop Frye
John Fowles quote: "The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We..."
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? John Fowles
Stephen Covey quote: "To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our..."
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. Stephen Covey
Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, etcetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would say they are special. If they had ALL of them, we would call them angelic. But because it's "only" a dog, we dismiss them as sweet or funny but little more. However when you think about it, what are the things that we most like in another human... Jonathan Carroll
Woody Allen quote: "We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices..."
We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices... Woody Allen
George Eliot quote: "Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only..."
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others. George Eliot
I have always noticed that people who live in the practice of vice think the servants of God ought not to allude to things so coarse! We are allowed to denounce the sins of the man in the moon and the vices of savages in the middle of Africa—but as to the everyday vices of this city of London—if we put our finger upon them in God’s name, then straightway someone cries, “It is indelicate to allude to these things! Charles Spurgeon
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us. Theodore Roosevelt
There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are children of God, that God expects us to do something with our lives, and that He will give us help when help is sought. Gordon B. Hinckley
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the..."
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? Lawrence Durrell
No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to stay your hand. Your eyes can look on death and not tremble. It's the heart that betrays us, makes us weep, makes us bury our friends when we should be marching ahead. It's the heart that sickens us at night and makes us hate who we are. It's the heart that sings old songs and brings memories of warm days. Jeanette Winterson

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