"The great work of the present for every man, and every organization of men, who would improve social conditions, is the work of education the propagation of ideas. It is only as it aids this that anything else can avail. And in this work every one who can think may aid first by forming clear ideas himself, and then by endeavoring to arouse the thought of those with whom he comes in contact."

-- Henry George

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“But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock my the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down.”
“It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the 1960s and 70s and pretend that something really big didn't change then. It did change. There really was a significant institutional decline.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.”
“When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.”

Source : Mark Mills (2008). “The Savage Garden”, p.45, Penguin
“Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.32, Vintage
“It is commonly, but erroneously, believed that it is easy to ask questions. A fool, it is said, can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. The fact is that a wise man can answer many questions that a fool cannot ask.”

Source : Cassius Jackson Keyser (1947). “Mathematics as a culture clue: and other essays”
“I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters”
“Being free is a state of mind.”

Source : Song: Believe

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