"Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one... a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls, and, for this reason, needs to be understood less in terms of budgets or fiscal cycles and more in terms of where we locate the sacred, of where we search for meaning and transcendence, and of how we think about justice, equality, and the future of our world."

-- Robert Wuthnow

#Running Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.”

Source : "Shooting: Samuel Jackson says fewer guns aren't necessarily the answer" by Steven Zeitchik, articles.latimes.com. December 16, 2012.
“Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.”
“My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.”
“This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in my judgment any excuse for a conflict between science and religion, for their fields are entirely different. Men who know very little of science and men who know very little of religion do indeed get to quarreling, and the onlookers imagine that there is a conflict between science and religion, whereas the conflict is only between two different species of ignorance.”
“No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.”
“And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.”
“And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic”
“I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.”

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