"Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!"

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Farewell Quotes #May Quotes #Where You Are Quotes

“Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise”
“George W. Bush loves golf because it's like the election--low score wins.”
“Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.”
“Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.39, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.”
“The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.”
“There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans. And this imbalance remains. I no longer have any issues. It's bit like asking an astronomer, does he mind that a telescope does all the work. He is used to it. It is just an incredible tool that you can use.”
“I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.”

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