"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."

-- Marcus Aurelius

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“Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.”
“We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We see in the world around us many symbols that teach us the meaning of life. We have a saying that the white man sees so little, he must see with only one eye. We see a lot that you no longer notice. You could notice if you wanted to, but you are usually too busy. We Indians live in a world of symbols and images where the spiritual and commonplace are oneâ€¦We try to understand them not with the head but with the heart”
“Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.”

Source : "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. uly 2005.
“Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.”
“I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science).”

Source : Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press
“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.”
“Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.”
“Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.”

Source : Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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