"Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest."

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Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

Haniel Long

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“I think the occasional appearance of the UFO is a very oblique pop-cultural reference that anyone who was alive and sentient in the late 1970s will get right away.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
“I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.”
“I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I hope as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to be, then I'll endure it, because the only alternative is to live without you, and that is no life at all. And the difference is that I know it, and you don't... not yet...”
“Modern dynamical systems theory has a relatively short history. It begins with Poincare (of course)... [to whom] a global understanding of the gross behavior of all solutions of the system was more important than the local behavior of particular, analytically-precise solutions.”
“If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.”
“Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.”
“No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.”

Source : Alexander Whyte (1998). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer”, p.119, Regent College Publishing
“My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.”

Source : Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.116, U of Nebraska Press

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