"Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen."

-- Iris Murdoch

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“Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards a mother's excessive concern, or even excessive control, but towards her inability to see, and appreciate, their maturing identity.”
“Holiness is not just for some select few spiritual giants; it is not just for pious people who sit around all day with nothing to do but â€œbe holy.â€... â€œEveryone who names the name of the Lordâ€ is called to live a holy life!”
“I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.”
“Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back”
“If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his support, and nothing more; it is evident that all of them being equal, no one would work for another. Neither would any of them possess wherewith to pay another for his labour, for each person having only such a quantity of land as was necessary to produce a subsistence, would consume all he should gather, and would not have any thing to give in exchange for the labour of others.”

Source : "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 1), 1766.
“The goddess Artemis had a twin brother, Apollo, the many-faceted god of the Sun. He was her male counterpart: his domain was the city, hers the wilderness; his was the sun, hers the moon; his the domesticated flocks, hers the wild, untamed animals; he was the god of music, she was the inspiration for round dances on the mountains.”
“I'm never going to run this again.”
“All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.”

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