"An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force."

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“Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.”
“The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam.”
“Equity, ownership, production fees, license fees: those are the vocabulary words that are exciting to me.”
“In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.”

Source : Horatius Bonar (1864). “God's Way of Peace: A Book for the Anxious”, p.38
“There was a brief moment of weightlesssness: a balancing point between air and earth, dirt and heaven. How strange, I thought, how like the moment between sleeping and falling when everything is beautifully surreal and nothing is corporeal. How like floating towards completion. But as often happens in that time between existing in the world and fading into dreams, this moment over the edge ended with the ruthless jerk back to awareness.”
“I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.”
“Your brain is not formed when you're born, you have to build your brain.”

Source : "Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. February 4, 2016.
“If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.”

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