"Like a flash of lightning between the clouds, we live in the flicker."

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Joseph Conrad

#Life Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Lightning Quotes

“Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.”
“Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.”
“If the gospel has never broken you, you have never really heard it.”

Source : Matt Papa (2014). “Look and Live: Behold the Soul-Thrilling, Sin-Destroying Glory of Christ”, p.78, Baker Books
“Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.”

Source : Carl David Anderson (1937). “The Production and Properties of Positrons ...”
“No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored...”
“My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.”
“A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.”

Source : Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.15, Verso
“Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.”

Source : Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.39, Crown Business

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