"To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence."

-- Jean-Baptiste Say

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“I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.”
“Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.”
“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”
“Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.”
“Breathing is optional, but I need some air.”
“What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.”

Source : Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”
“I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire â€” where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live!”
“There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.”

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