"I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them."

-- Geoffrey Fisher

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“There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.”
“My thoughts are often not tasty.”
“I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.”

Source : Interview with Kate Ayers, www.bookreporter.com. February 8, 2002.
“Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of the sort of wholesale transformation of species that Darwin envisioned as the natural product of the evolutionary process. Few saw any reason to demur - though it is a startling fact that ...most species remain recognizably themselves, virtually unchanged throughout their occurrence in geological sediments of various ages.”
“If you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won't like you. It may not be easy, but it's essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.”

Source : Cheryl Richardson (2012). “21 Days to Master Extreme Self-Care”, p.7, Hay House, Inc
“Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.”
“He gave me something that day... something I wanted to protect. And when it was taken from me I learned how small I was. I vowed to never again care for someone so much, I couldn't bear to lose them.”

Source : "Fictional character: Genjo Sanzo". "Gensomaden Saiyuki", www.imdb.com. 2000–2001.
“I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep oneself humbly available, to allow oneself to be a battlefield. After all, the problems must be accommodated, have somewhere to struggle and come to rest and we, poor little humans, must put our inner space at their service and not run away.”

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