"The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water"

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Source : John Stuart Blackie (1877). “The Wise Men of Greece: In a Series of Dramatic Dialogues”

John Stuart Blackie

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“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”
“To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism”
“After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.”
“The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no manâ€™s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”
“You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.”
“I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.”
“Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .”
“So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.”

Source : Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books

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