"you can never prove God; you can only find Him!"

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Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.345, e-artnow

Kate Douglas Wiggin

#God Quotes #Prove Quotes

“Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.”
“Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.”
“What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks.”
“A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.96, Macmillan
“Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it.”
“Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.”
“What I think a lot of that was K-1 having had their Grand Prix finals not even a month before the "Dynamite!!" show so a lot of those guys were coming into that fight pressured to fight.”
“When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.”

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