"dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality."

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Muriel Rukeyser

#Reality Quotes #Shrinking Quotes #World Quotes

“Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which is not closed up in matter like the nature of physical things, but which is intellectual or infinitized by the spirit. It is the property of a metaphysical nature. Such desires reach for the infinite, because the intellect thirsts for being and being is infinite.”

Source : Jacques Maritain (2015). “Approaches to God”, p.72, Paulist Press
“Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring”

Source : Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins (2014). “Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter”, p.25, Lulu.com
“We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something sensational, and when it comes we are quick to cry, 'Here am I.' Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference.”
“Just keep focusing on the work that you're doing. Focus on what's in front of you today. And don't read the papers, just go campaign. Just do your thing. Talk to people directly”
“Every time I see a happy couple I want to give them a polygraph.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 04, 2012
“Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.”

Source : Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.149, Quirk Books
“I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.”
“There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real stuff like sex and divorce and is there a God and if there isn't then what happens when you die, and how come the history books have so many lies in them.”

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