"Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer."

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Thomas Brooks

#Prayer Quotes #Men Quotes #Fire Quotes

“My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.”
“In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.”

Source : Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.70, Columbia University Press
“Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.”
“In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.”

Source : 'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)
“My nation faces a fundamental challenge - survival. The regime is more threatened than ever before. My forefathers had it easy. The Great Leader, my grandfather, ruled with the support of the world's other superpower at the time, the Soviet Union, as well as our China. But today, the Soviet Union is history and China has become more integrated with the Western system. And the United States seeks regime change in my country. And yet, we have survived with our ideology and system intact. How? Because we have built a protection for ourselves in the form of nuclear weapons.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it.”
“Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.”

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