"The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created."

-- Bell Hooks

#Paradise Quotes #Academy Quotes

“The translation called good has original value as a work of art.”
“If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.”
“We don't really watch basketball in Australia.”
“Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid.”
“A lot of people should realize they aren't on this earth for long and if you want to do anything you better hurry.”

Source : Source: rocknycliveandrecorded.com
“Don't keep that money waiting, it get impatient.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.”

Source : "Tony Orlando's Brush With Death". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com. October 16, 2013.
“It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.”

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