"But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel."

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Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#Wisdom Quotes #Father Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?”

Source : "I Love Dick". Book by Chris Kraus, 1997.
“An island of surety in a changing world.”
“Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted to live as slaves and submitted to tyrants. Now the time has come to revolt and destroy the shackle of slavery.”
“Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.”

Source : "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.
“A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner”
“We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no longer be our seeking a creed to follow, but it must be our living a life.”

Source : H. Emilie Cady (2016). “LESSONS IN TRUTH - A Course of Twelve Lessons in Practical Christianity: How to Enhance Your Confidence and Your Inner Power & How to Improve Your Spiritual Development”, p.6, e-artnow
“I canâ€™t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dogâ€™s eyes in the aptitude test â€“ a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I canâ€™t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.”
“I really do believe that the bottom line that creates transformation in the individual is the ability to focus your attention in an ever greater and more subtle way, and that follows the whole path of the limbs.”

Source : "Beryl Bender Birch: Abhyasa and Avoiding Flying Tomatoes". Interview with Andrea Marcum, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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