"Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little."

-- Leonard Michaels

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“For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.”
“We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 11, 2016
“We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.”
“In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here”
“I felt like I was at that breaking point. I just prayed and took my mind off of dreams - I went to church. I felt like a lot of things came together. I'm not perfect but I strive to be.”
“I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this world today, between the non-stop headlines about wars and nuclear power plants and terrorists and assasinations and civil unrest and economic uncertainty and political doublespeak and insane weather and an environment that's becoming unhealthier by the day. But a point comes when it's too much to deal with, and thinking about it accomplishes nothing more than sending you to bed with a cold cloth on your head.”

Source : Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison (2010). “End Of Days: Predictions and prophecies about the end of the world”, p.6, Hachette UK
“Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages - and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the "absolute safety" test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations.”
“They usually show movies on a flight like that.”

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