"I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-"

-- Anne Carson

#Gold Quotes #Earth Quotes #Matter Quotes

“And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.”
“The mind is just another muscle.”
“Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.”
“Unbelievers, those who believe with difficulty, or believe in part, are those who do not show their faith through works. Apart from works the demons also believe (cf. Jms. 2:19) and confess Christ to be God and Master. 'We know Who You are' (Mk. 1:24), they say, 'You are the Son of God' (Mt. 8:29), and elsewhere, 'These men are the servants of the Most High God' (Acts 16:17). Yet such faith will not benefit the demons, nor even humans. This faith is of no use, for it is dead.”
“No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.”
“I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.”
“Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.”
“One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.”

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