"Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason."

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Source : Judith Wright (1992). “A human pattern: selected poems”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

Judith Wright

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“Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as well as its ethical standpoint.”

Source : "Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, amanpour.blogs.cnn.com. September 25, 2013.
“Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody”
“Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.”
“No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.”
“For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides us little evidence of anything other than a regal, relentless, and miraculous enmity; sin he forgives, suffering he heals, evil he casts out, and death he conquers. And absolutely nowhere does Christ act as if any of these things are part of the eternal work or purposes of God.”
“Social media is important, but it does not bring down governments. Governments can shut down the Internet. Governments can control media access. If they do what the Tunisians did and try and negotiate with the opposition, then the media's still open, the international community can learn what's happening in the country, and then that can provide inspiration. But in mid-2009, the Iranian regime just shut down the Internet. Facebook went dark. Twitter went dark. BBC Persian, Voice of America, Persian News Network all went dark. That was it.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.”

Source : "Philosophie Zoologique". Book by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1809), Vol. I, p. 226; translation by Hugh Elliot, "Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals", p. 109, 1914.
“We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them...”

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