"Far from poisoning the mind, ***** shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer."

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“Around me the moonlight glittered on the pebbles of the llano, and in the night sky a million stars sparkled. Across the river I could see the twinkling lights of the town. In a week I would be returning to school, and as always I would be running up the goat path and crossing the bridge to go to church. Sometime in the future I would have to build my own dream out of those things that were so much a part of my childhood.”
“What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.”
“On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.”
“Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.132, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.”

Source : "Divine Action". Interview with Lyndon F. Harris, "Cross Currents", Volume 48, Issue 1, www.aril.org. Spring 1998.
“Don't fear conflict, fear the silence.”
“Absence becomes the greatest Presence.”

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