"Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed."

-- Diogenes

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“The Protestant wing of the western church, which is a tiny percentage of the Body of Christ, is nearly completely (98%) unaware that the Holy Spirit is restoring contemplative prayer-center stage-to the church The Holy Spirit is restoring this precious jewel (contemplative prayer) to the body of Christ. This is the God ordained means of attaining the fullness of God.”
“Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.”

Source : Edmund Blunden (1957). “Poems of many years”
“I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have.”
“One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.”
“You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.”
“I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.”
“I don't take breaks, man, I'm always doing something.”
“As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.”

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