"You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical."

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Warwick Thornton

#Song Quotes #Quirky Quotes #Language Quotes

“Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.”
“You have to be strong; you have to trust yourself that you can bring down the dictatorship regime and build a new country. You have to be part of building your country. We know that anything that you dream can happen. You have to know that you have the ability to achieve your dream.”
“The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.”
“I am a witch, by which I mean that I am somebody who believes that the earth is sacred, and that women and women's bodies are one expression of that sacred being.”

Source : "Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion". Book by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, 1979.
“Because no matter how much money we spend there [in Iraq], as long as the people there see this money as... as assistance that is unwelcome, as long as they continue to be humiliated in their own country by us... I mean, the future looked bleak, and the future after that was in fact very bleak.”
“It matters not how long we live but how.”

Source : Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.40
“My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.”
“The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.”

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