"My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men."

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Source : William Soutar (2000). “Into a Room: Selected Poems of William Soutar”, Argyll Publishing

William Soutar

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“Being a Mountie's daughter means you know that the bad guys aren't just on TV. You know the good guys are real, too.”
“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”

Source : Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.143, Macmillan
“I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.”
“The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration.”
“I always try to think before I talk.”
“The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…”, p.162, e-artnow
“Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.”
“I had let want in, opened the door ever so slightly. But want without the belief you can get what you want is pointless. You have to hope, so I let that in too. You have to. To want things and go for them and believe, even in impossible situations...Hope was what you had when you had nothing else. Hope was the perfect shiny top on the Christmas tree, the glowing halo of every wish, the endless beacon of a lighthouse bringing tormented ships home at last.”

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