"I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

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“I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.”
“My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.”
“I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'”
“Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.”
“Magic is love. All magic should be performed out of love. The moment anger or hatred tinges your magic, you have crossed the border into a dangerous world, one that will ultimately consume you.”

Source : Scott Cunningham (2012). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs”, p.19, Llewellyn Worldwide
“No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.”

Source : "Chen Guangcheng says he fears reprisals against his family" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2012.
“It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.”
“Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the secret cause of life evolution has nothing to do. A man, therefore, may be a materialistic evolutionist or a theistic evolutionist; that is, he may believe that the cause is some single unintelligent impersonal force, or he may believe that the cause is a wise and beneficent God.”

Source : Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.176, Cambridge University Press

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