"God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself."

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Source : "Quarks, Chaos & Christianity". Book by John Polkinghorne, 1994.

John Polkinghorne

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“Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.”

Source : Ben Nicholson (2002). “Ben Nicholson”
“I hate being ignored.”
“We have to go for what we think we're fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we've been in the past”
“I'm going to keep talking about what I think is interesting for my entire career. If you want to hear about how women do a lot of shoe shopping or how being married sucks, go see the guy who does jokes about that. But if you come to see my live show, there's going to be 20 minutes on religion for the rest of my life, probably. If that makes me a caricature, so be it.”
“Some people say I'm a gender bender. Whether that's right I leave up for interpretation.”
“I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.”
“The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.”

Source : Edmund Husserl (2008). “Introduction to Logic and Theory of Knowledge: Lectures 1906/07”, p.252, Springer Science & Business Media
“But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.”

Source : Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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