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“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.”
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“We change people through conversation, not through censorship.”
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“Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.”
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“In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.”
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“All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.”
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“A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing.”
Source : Dru Pagliassotti (2017). “Clockwork Heart”, p.88, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
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“It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.”
Source : Christopher Dawson, Gerald J. Russello (1998). “Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)”, p.101, CUA Press
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“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.”
