"A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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“Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given situation. When film does this, when it subverts our absorption in the temporal and reveals the depths of our own reality, it opens us to a fuller sense of ourselves and our world. It is alive as a devotional form.”

Source : Nathaniel Dorsky (2003). “Devotional Cinema”
“As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!”

Source : Lola Ridge, Daniel Tobin (2007). “Light in Hand: Selected Early Poems”, p.28, Quale Press
“Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.”
“Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.”

Source : "Campbell's Comeback". "Landline" with Pip Courtney, www.abc.net.au. September 20, 2015.
“In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ, and gives it a power proportional to the length of time it has been so used; while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.”
“No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.”

Source : Edward Teller (1981). “The Pursuit of Simplicity”, Pepperdine Press
“If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?”

Source : Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith (2013). “Earth at Risk: Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet”, p.254, PM Press
“Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.”

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