"Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky."

-- Albert Camus

#Believe Quotes #Blue Quotes #Sky Quotes

“I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.”
“A broken immigration system means broken families means broken lives. That's what is at stake.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths.”
“Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never done Wi' glittering dance and reeling in the sun And green wood fly and blossom haunting bee Are never weary of their melody Round field hedge now flowers in full glory twine Large bindweed bells wild hop and streakd woodbine That lift athirst their slender throated flowers Agape for dew falls and for honey showers These round each bush in sweet disorder run And spread their wild hues to the sultry sun.”

Source : John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell (2004). “Major Works”, p.135, Oxford University Press, USA
“I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.”
“We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.”
“To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.”
“Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].”

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