"Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt."

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Source : R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.197, Verso Books

R. H. Tawney

#Spiritual Quotes #Order Quotes #Puritan Quotes

“I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.”
“Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.”
“Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it." You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.”
“We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.”
“I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.”
“If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.”

Source : "In Remembrance Of Bill Moggridge, 1943-2012" by Linda Tischler, www.fastcodesign.com. September 10, 2012.
“It's amazing to me that not only can we put a probe around Saturn and get images of its moons, but our math and physics are so freaking accurate we can say, "Hey, you know what? On this date at this time if we turn Cassini that way we'll see a moon over 2 million kilometers away pass in front of another one nearly 3 million kilometers away."Every morning, I have a 50/50 chance of finding my keys. That kinda puts things in perspective.”

Source : "A Marvelous Night for a (Saturn) Moon Dance". blogs.discovermagazine.com. February 10, 2010.
“The Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world.”

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