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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation. Michelle Obama
In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite. Elizabeth Gilbert
You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes. C. S. Lewis
Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom of a particular culture or tribe. It is a consequence of the interchangeability of perspectives and the opportunity the world provides for positive-sum games. Steven Pinker
Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive. Isabella Beeton
Terry Prachett quote: "It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at..."
It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny. Terry Prachett
The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous? (VII) Aristotle
Primo Levi quote: "Today, I think that if for no other reason than that an..."
Today, I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence. Primo Levi
Thomas Jefferson quote: "A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty,..."
A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life. Thomas Jefferson
Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about. Benjamin Hoff
Jane Jacobs quote: "Cities have the capability of providing something for..."
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. Jane Jacobs
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and..."
Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded. Robert A. Heinlein
growing pale and sober with the thought that her fate was soon to be decided; for, like all young people, she was sure that her whole life could be settled by one human creature, quite forgetting how wonderfully Providence trains us by disappointment, surprises us with unexpected success, and turns our seeming trials into blessing. Louisa May Alcott
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange..."
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. Gustave Flaubert

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