"It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God."

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Source : AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.93

Austin Phelps

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“The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.”
“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.”
“All the really successful, happy relationships that I know of, the people that are together are friends, anyways.”
“What i'm trying to tell you," Min said, "is that im going to grow up to be one of those chubby old ladies. It's in my genes. Like self raising flour. i'm going to pouf." "thats going to work out well for me," Cal said. "because i'm going to grow up to be one of those ***** old men who chases chubby old ladies around the couch.”
“Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.”
“What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?”

Source : Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek (2011). “Living in the End Times”, p.6, Verso
“The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.”
“Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.”

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