"Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view."

-- Wassily Kandinsky

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“Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.”
“In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.”
“What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence. Obviously they did not dominate in these associations, as the writers, whom I have just mentioned, pretended; they were not necessarily the soul, the head, the grand master of masonry as Gougenot des Mousseaux affirms. It is certain however that there were Jews in the very cradle of masonry, kabbalist Jews, as some of the rites which have been preserved prove.”
“To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.”

Source : Studies in History and Jurisprudence "Obedience" (1901)
“Our women are not incredible because they have managed to avoid the difficulties of lifeâ€”quite the opposite. They are incredible because of the way they face the trials of life. Despite the challenges and tests life has to offerâ€”from marriage or lack of marriage, childrenâ€™s choices, poor health, lack of opportunities, and many other problemsâ€”they remain remarkably strong and immovable and true to the faith. Our sisters throughout the Church consistently â€œsuccor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees.”
“Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.”
“We Africans are able to build companies that can operate in the global environment.”
“You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualitiesâ€¦you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It's a sort of modern magic. We think there's something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right.”

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