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Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer

"As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!"

Source : Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Stanley Appelbaum (2006). “Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección): A Dual-Language Book”, p.9, Courier Corporation

Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer

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“Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.”
“Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.”
“The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.”
“There is some rationale backing Kim Jong-un's actions, which are survival - survival for his regime, survival for his country. And he has watched, I think, what has happened around the world relative to nations that possess nuclear capabilities and the leverage they have, and seen that having the nuclear card in your pocket results in a lot of deterrence capability. The lessons that we learned out of Libya giving up its nukes and Ukraine giving up its nukes is, unfortunately, if you have nukes, never give them up.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.”
“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.”
“Courts of equity have always considered it of the greatest possible importance that parties should not sleep on their rights.”
“Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence . . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.”

Source : Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

"As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!"

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