"The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process."

-- Herbert Butterfield

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“I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do.”
“I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.”
“We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.”
“One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.”
“Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?”
“Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, wiggle 'til you vomit fire.”
“We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.”

Source : Johanna Spyri (1993). “Heidi Dievčatko Z Hôr”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions
“I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.”

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