"Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions."

-- Mircea Eliade

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“Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.”
“Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.”
“Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved. When gifts circulate within a group, their commerce leaves a series of interconnected relationships in its wake, and a kind of decentralized cohesiveness emerges.”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.20, Vintage
“The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.”

Source : Eugene H. Peterson (2009). “Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best”, p.150, InterVarsity Press
“I think that the voters should choose the elected officials, not the elected officials choose the voters.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.”

Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
“We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.”
“The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, â€œHere I am,â€ but to write a novel, hold it up and say, â€œHere YOU are.”

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