"Revelation is always measured by capacity."

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Source : Margaret Fairless Barber (1922). “The Roadmender”

Margaret Barber

#Revelations Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious council. It's the only place in the world where the last six elections have been won by the more progressive candidate, two for president, two for the mayors, two for the parliament. So most people there are sympathetic to the world we Americans want to build, whether we're Republicans or Democrats. On the other hand, almost everybody there wants them to have nuclear power. They see it as a status symbol, and a sense of their own security.”
“Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.”
“Perfection is not a destination; it's a never-ending process...Enjoy!”
“Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because ‘in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no longer neatly divided into things black and white. On top of this,’ he added, ‘there was the irresistible impulse to draw. I cannot remember wanting to be anything else other than an artist.’”
“If you want to empower anyone else in your life, you need to start living the most empowered version of yourself first!”
“the Egyptians became fond of wine and bibulous; and so a way was found among them to help those who could not afford wine, namely, to drink that made from barley; they who took it were so elated that they sang, danced, and acted in every way like persons filled with wine.”

Source : Athenaeus (of Naucratis.), Charles Burton Gulick (1969). “The Deipnosophists”, Harvard Univ Pr
“If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.”
“He who abhors and shuns the light of the Sun,He who refuses to behold with respect the living creation of God,He who leads the good to wickedness,He who makes the meadows waterless and the pastures desolate,He who lets fly his weapon against the innocent,An enemy of my faith, a destroyer of Thy principles is he, O Lord!”

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