"Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated"

-- C. S. Lewis

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“The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive.”

Source : Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.23, Penguin
“Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinationsâ€”this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.”
“Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.”
“If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.”
“There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress.”
“It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.”
“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”

Source : Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
“Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.”

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