"For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice."

-- Saint John Chrysostom

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“Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.”
“No one on earth is allowed to question my business decisions,”

Source : "Hull City owner Assem Allam vows to quit if FA rejects name change" by David Conn, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2014.
“A good river is nature's life work in song.”
“Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.”
“In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.”
“It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up -release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast true nature.”
“Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.”

Source : Edward W. Said (2014). “Orientalism”, p.5, Vintage
“Very early in my life it was too late.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.4, Pantheon

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