"Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this functional cosmology, we can overcome our alienation and begin the renewal of life on a sustainable basis. This story is a numinous revelatory story that could evoke the vision and the energy required to bring not only ourselves but the entire planet into a new order of magnificence."

-- Thomas Berry

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“Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.”

Source : John Maynard Smith (1993). “The Theory of Evolution”, p.15, Cambridge University Press
“My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family”
“I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.”
“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.”
“Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.”

Source : Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.33, Penguin UK
“I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.”

Source : "Susanna Thompson: ‘Arrow’ Star Talks Career And Staying Young". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.
“We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century”
“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”

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