"He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)"

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Source : William Manchester (1983). “American Caesar”, Laurel

William Manchester

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“The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.”
“The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.”

Source : 1650 Silex Scintillans, 'The Search'.
“Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. We walk through it, yell into it, rake leaves, wash the dog, and drive cars in it. We breathe it deep within us. With every breath, we inhale millions of molecules of sky, heat them briefly, and then exhale them back into the world.”

Source : Diane Ackerman, Dave Thurlow, C. Ralph Adler (1999). “Soul of the Sky: Exploring the Human Side of Weather”
“Spirituality is that place where the utterly intimate and the vastly infinite meet.”
“If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.”

Source : "In Remembrance Of Bill Moggridge, 1943-2012" by Linda Tischler, www.fastcodesign.com. September 10, 2012.
“I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.”
“What's going on in Russia is not that the public is homophobic, but that the Kremlin has unleashed a war. You don't fight a war by distributing well-meaning books about how the other side really isn't so bad.”
“I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.”

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