"Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems."

-- Fredrik Bajer

#Important Quotes #Details Quotes #Problem Quotes

“There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or emotional image can carry him into a one-sidedness that makes him lose his balance...his one-sidedness and consequent loss of balance are much dreaded by primitives, who call it 'loss of soul.' Another threat...circles around particular complexes”
“Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.”

Source : Bernard J. F. Lonergan (1990). “Method in Theology”, p.268, University of Toronto Press
“Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.”
“What the hell could you do? I've never been arrested, I haven't taken drugs, I've had the same wife for 54 years where's anything of interest to people?”
“I'm very militant, you know, in a quite way.”
“If flurries be the food of quests, snow on.”
“She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.”
“The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.”

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