"Nothing happens accidentally or in such a way that you cannot learn from it; you must understand this at once, for this is how your trust grows in the Lord whom you have chosen to follow."

-- Tito Colliander

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“The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.”
“The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. â€”Elana's father”

Source : Sylvia Louise Engdahl (2003). “Enchantress from the Stars”, Puffin
“When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.”
“Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.”

Source : Bernard Lonergan (2016). “A Second Collection”, p.17, University of Toronto Press
“If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.”
“I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.”
“Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.”
“The truth will set you free...unless you want to know the truth about who killed JFK.”

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