"There is in the living being a thirst for limitlessness."

-- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

“How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.”
“But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the common law rules that subject the libeler to responsibility for the public offense, as well as for the private injury, are not abolished by the protection extended in our constitutions. The law of criminal libel rests upon that secure foundation. There is also the conceded authority of courts to punish for contempt when publications directly tend to prevent the proper discharge of judicial functions.”
“I know if someone is coming from my right side. I could feel it.”

Source : Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. August 2, 2002.
“I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.”
“... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Bits of Gossip”
“When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias, and it presents a major impediment of our ability to break free from the misinterpretation of randomness.”

Source : Leonard Mlodinow (2009). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.164, Penguin UK
“If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake.”
“We have so many Christians who want to change the world, but they don't want to change themselves.”

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