"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth"

-- Linji Yixuan

#Water Quotes #Miracle Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again.”
“I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.”
“If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical processes going on in my brain, they are determined by the laws of chemistry, not those of logic.”
“I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.”
“Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.172, Princeton University Press
“But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.”
“Demon. Gremlin. Poltergeist. Ghost. Phantom. Spirit. Shadow. Ghoul. Devil. People are afraid of them, so they relegate their existence to stories, volumes of books that can be closed and put on the shelf or left behind at a bed and breakfast; they clench their eyes shut, so they will see no evil. But trust me when I tell you that the zebra is real. Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper
“Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it.”

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