"We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see."

-- Barbara Brown Taylor

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“If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.”
“The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.”
“Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.”
“I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.”
“My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.”

Source : "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.
“But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.”

Source : Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.300, Univ of California Press
“Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.”

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