"Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price."

-- Moses ibn Ezra

#Sea Quotes #Pearls Quotes

“No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.”
“You haven't hurt peopleâ€”you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.”
“By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.”
“There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to one of the local Native American tribes, and it occurred to me one day that if you really wanted to get away with murder, you'd kill someone, put them in a coffin and bury them in a private cemetery or, better, an abandoned one. And then suddenly this whole idea of a long con appeared before me and I had this idea of using a Jewish cemetery.”
“Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.”

Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.17, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“Canada's ruling circles seek to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.”

Source : "Tim Buck A Conscience for Canada". Book by Oscar Ryan, 1957.
“To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of atheism? That one does not mistake: that, to my mind, does not prove anything against atheism and much against religion. "The heart of a heartless world, said Marx, the soul of soulless conditions." It is misery that makes religion, and it is why this one is miserable. Who would prohibit opium to a dying man? And what are we, out of oblivion or entertainment, anything else but dying?”
“I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.”

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