"I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things."

-- Gottfried Leibniz

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“Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.”
“Your history's not going to go away; it isn't the same thing as dirt on the floor or paint peeling off the walls; it's not going to be solved in that way. It's more like learning how to carry it, to contact it, to see it. Because it's based on the psychology of the normal, the therapist is part of that too. And so they too are working with those very same processes. And so it requires a therapist just to see the value of it and to be willing to look at their own difficult emotions and thoughts and find a way to carry them gently in the service of the clients that they're serving.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.”
“So writing about love or having it infuse the poems that I'm writing has never been something I've set myself to do, except when I write a poem for my wife, for an occasion, such as our anniversary.”

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“Cancer is like another form of life. It's closely related to healthy life. A healthy body is one form of life. Cancer is in a way nature's experiment with life.”
“You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.”
“God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.”

Source : Hannah Whitall Smith (1893). “Everyday Religion Or The Common Sense Teaching of the Bible”
“When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?”

Source : "West warns of 'freebies' over freedom" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. March 14, 2013.

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