"God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down."

-- C. S. Lewis

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“You create your own life and your work. Give us your best.”
“Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.”

Source : K. M. Kostyal, Doris Kearns Goodwin (2009). “Abraham Lincoln's extraordinary era: the man and his times”, Natl Geographic Society
“The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.”

Source : "What's The Anthropocene?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2016.
“The big problem in making the hard decisions has much to do with the personal and professional well-being of the person making the call.”
“I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The imperative is to define what is right and do it.”

Source : Barbara Jordan, Elspeth D. Rostow, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin (1986). “The Great Society: A Twenty Year Critique”, Univ Texas at Austin Lyndon B
“I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death and time elaborated in phenomenology.”

Source : "Nihil Unbound". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com.
“Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.”

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