"The club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be used to build schools. The minds that coordinate the activities of violence can coordinate the activities of cooperation. When the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose."

-- Gary Zukav

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“Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.”

Source : Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du”, p.16
“I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it.”
“I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.”
“Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.”
“I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night”
“Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided.”

Source : Cynthia Leitich Smith (2010). “Tantalize”, p.54, Candlewick Press
“A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.190
“A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,â€”when?”

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