"Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error."

-- Keith Henson

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“We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.”
“My music is not modern, it is merely badly played”

Source : "Immanence and Transcendence" by Gérard Genette, 1997.
“Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.”
“Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought practically universal acceptance to the theory that the material world contains but two fundamental entities, namely, positive and negative electrons, exactly alike in charge, but differing widely in mass, the positive electron-now usually called a proton-being 1850 times heavier than the negative, now usually called simply the electron.”
“Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.”

Source : Julien Green (1936). “Midnight”
“In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.”
“I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.”

Source : "Bush's 'perfect storm'" by Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. September 11, 2003.
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

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