"In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line."

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Will Durant

#Distance Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Two Quotes

“Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.”
“I am seriously considering it.”

Source : "Trump 'Seriously Considering' 2012 Presidential Bid", www.foxnews.com. October 5, 2010.
“I just sat there. I just held Shelby's hand. There was no noise, no tremble, just peace. Oh god. I realize as a woman how lucky I am. I was there when that wonderful creature drifted into my life and I was there when she drifted out. It was the most precious moment of my life.”

Source : "Fictional character: M'Lynn". "Steel Magnolias", www.imdb.com. 1989.
“Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.”

Source : Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.52, Beacon Press
“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”
“The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.”

Source : A Child's Garden of Misinformation (1965) ch. 8
“My day is pretty much busy. I do 15 million things in the course of a day. I'm holding up I think. I don't know how I look, but I think I'm holding up.”
“A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.”

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