"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."

-- Niccolo Machiavelli

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“I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very different way of viewing the world.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.”
“He stared at his feet. â€œIâ€™m still very ignorant,â€ he said, â€œbut at least Iâ€™m ignorant about really important things.”
“I know that through the grace of God, I am the founder of Manitoba.”

Source : Louis Riel (1886). “The Queen Vs. Louis Riel: Accused and Convicted of the Crime of High Treason. Report of Trial at Regina.--Appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench, Manitoba.--Appeal to the Privy Council, England.--Petition for Medical Examination of the Convict.--List of Petitions for Commutation of Sentence, Ottawa”
“All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.”
“Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.”
“Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.”

Source : Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty Takes a Holiday”, p.46, Hachette UK
“Much of our understanding of God's action in our lives in achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, 'The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.”

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