"If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did."

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Mira Grant

“If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.”

Source : Nelson Goodman (1983). “Fact, Fiction, and Forecast”, p.31, Harvard University Press
“Purge, emerge and flourish. It's natural.”
“I believe the enemy has numerous tactics to keep us from praying because he knows that it is the greatest way for the kingdom of God to expand.”
“...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular reforms and quell the mutinies. Corporate Globalization-or shall we call it by its name?-Imperialism-needs a press that pretends to be free. It needs courts that pretend to dispense justice.”
“We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.”
“I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.”
“Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator”

Source : Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.37, North Atlantic Books
“I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.”

Source : Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2006). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.418, OUP Oxford

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