"Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is mysterious and calculated to awaken scientific curiosity in the intercourse with God, and it [is] a problem quite analogous to that of theology."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

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“The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.”
“The ideal companion in bed is a good book.”
“The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.”

Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.283, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up.”
“I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.”

Source : Quoted in Scholastic Coach,'Coaches' Corner', Dec 1982.
“I believe that we have to lift the voice without fear and simply go forward, because in a lot of other occasions, we got tired, we have lowered the arms and simply let everything happen.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my trade. If I disapproved of its policy, I would join in order to fight that policy; if the union leaders were dishonest, I would join in order to put them out. I believe in the union and I believe that all men who are benefited by the union are morally bound to help to the extent of their power in the common interests advanced by the union.”
“I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.”

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