"Let us also go, that we might die with him"

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Thomas the Apostle

“It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely”

Source : Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”
“Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands.”

Source : Joe Queenan (2004). “True Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans”, p.90, Macmillan
“Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.”
“As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.”
“Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span.”

Source : "A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger". Book by Bram van Velde, Deurne, p. 44, Letter to H. E. Kramer, October 25, 1926, 1994.
“Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....”
“Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.”
“When you are in joy you are in love with the world & the Universe is in love with you.”

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