"I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful."

-- Robert Adams

#Support Quotes #Records Quotes #World Quotes

“We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.”

Source : William Howard Taft (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”
“The holy mystery of the day of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost, is to be understood in the following manner: the spirit of man must be completed and perfected by the Holy Spirit, that is, it must be sanctified, illuminated, and divinized by the Holy Spirit. This holy mystery is realized continually in the Church of Christ and because of this the Church is really a continuous Pentecost.... From Holy Pentecost, the day of the Holy Spirit, every God-like soul in the Church of Christ is an incombustible bush which continuously burns and is inflamed with God and has a fiery tongue within it.”
“Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.”
“I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.”
“Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?”
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”
“We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles.”
“All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

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