"To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades."

-- Alexander Pope

#Soul Quotes #Paradise Quotes #Shade Quotes

“The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.”

Source : John Jeremiah Bigsby (1868). “Thesauricus Siluricus: The flora and fauna of the Silurian period. With addenda (from recent acquisitions).”, p.1
“The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.”
“In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.”

Source : "The Whole Earth Epilog: Access To Tools". Book by Stewart Brand, 1974.
“Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.”
“Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.”

Source : John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.27, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“The best things are placed between extremes.”
“One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'”
“We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. Aâ€”â€ â€œDo I really have to find a word for it?â€ Kyle interrupts. â€œCanâ€™t it just be what it is?â€ â€œOf course,â€ I say, even though in the bigger world Iâ€™m not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own. We pause for a moment. I wonder if thatâ€™s allâ€”if he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, â€œYou see, I donâ€™t know who Iâ€™m supposed to be.â€ â€œNobody does,â€ I assure him.”

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