"Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness."

-- Benjamin Hoff

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“Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.”
“Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.”

Source : "Anti-Dühring". Book by Frederick Engels, Part I, Chapter XI: "Morality and Law", www.marxists.org. 1877.
“A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.”
“I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin”
“Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.”
“Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.”

Source : Danielle Trussoni (2013). “Angelopolis: A Novel”, p.75, Penguin
“Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals.”

Source : Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 513, 2005.
“'Twilight' is a phenomenon. And I'm so happy it's all captured on film. It's going to be something I'll always look back on, for sure.”

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