"It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom. . . . It looms so large as the real origin of the modern world and of the modern mentality that our customary periodization of European history has become an anachronism and an encumbrance."

-- Herbert Butterfield

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“The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat.”

Source : Gabrielle Roth Roth (2014). “Connections: The Threads of Intuitive Wisdom”, p.45, BookBaby
“You can't predict what's gonna happen, you can't predict if people are going to participate, you can't predict if there'll be interference.”

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“Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine.”
“I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.”
“Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.”
“A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothingâ€”not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.”
“Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all thatâ€™s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.”
“When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.”

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