"President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal?"

-- Jay Leno

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“The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all being in love, as distinct from particular acts of loving, it is a first principle. So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice, it dismantles and abolishes the horizon within which our knowing and choosing went on, and it sets up a new horizon within which the love of God transvalues our values and the eyes of that love transform our knowing.”

Source : Bernard Lonergan (2016). “A Second Collection”, p.131, University of Toronto Press
“There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.”
“I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.”
“True magic therefore is the high knowledge of the more subtle powers that have not yet been acknowledged by science up to this date because the methods of scrutiny that have been applied so far do not suffice for their grasping, understanding and utilization, although the laws of magic are analogous to all official sciences of the world.”
“I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again. "No." "I want to." "Well, you go then." You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it”
“The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.”
“There was definitely a period when I just felt out of sync with earth.”
“I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.”

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