"...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply."

-- Flannery O'Connor

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“What's lightly hid is deepest understood,”

Source : Richard Wilbur (2012). “Poems of Richard Wilbur”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which of times they are unable to account.”

Source : Pierre-Simon Laplace (2012). “Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: Translated from the fifth French edition of 1825 With Notes by the Translator”, p.124, Springer Science & Business Media
“The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.”
“Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.”
“The gospel of submission, commitment, decision, and victorious living is not good news about what God has achieved but a demand to save ourselves with God’s help. Besides the fact that Scripture never refers to the gospel as having a personal relationship with Jesus nor defines faith as a decision to ask Jesus to come into our heart, this concept of salvation fails to realize that everyone has a personal relationship with God already: either as a condemned criminal standing before a righteous judge or as a justified coheir with Christ and adopted child of the Father.”

Source : Michael Horton (2008). “Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church”, p.74, Baker Books
“I thought, man, if you could run 100 miles, you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the f**king Buddha. Bringing peace and a smile to the world. In my case, it didn't work. I'm the same old punk ***** as ever. But there's always this hope that it'll turn you into the person you want to be. You know, like a better, more peaceful person. And when I'm out on a long run, the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going 'bleh bleh bleh bleh.' Everything just quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow”
“I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.”

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