"Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Trying Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Helping Quotes

“It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence.”
“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.”
“The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servantsâ€™ quarters.”
“We need to continuously put pressure on politicians to do more, because they are happy just to do nothingâ€”itâ€™s easier to do nothing.”
“Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.”

Source : Paul Celan (1980). “Paul Celan: poems”
“I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.”
“Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe - safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If ***** were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug.”
“The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.”

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