"Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K."

-- Stanley Crouch

#Culture Quotes #Obsession Quotes #Inclusion Quotes

“The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)”
“When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?”
“The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.”
“The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.”
“Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.”
“My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.”
“Doesn't it get on my nerves when people say science doesn't know everything. Science knows it doesn't know everything otherwise it would stop. Just becuase science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy-tale appeals to you.”
“Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.”

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