"Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires."

-- Iris Murdoch

#Effort Quotes #Soul Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.”
“Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while”
“If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Donâ€™t Own Anything!”

Source : Jack Valenti (2007). “This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood”, p.301, Crown Archetype
“Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.”
“War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.”
“Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.”
“The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.”
“Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.”

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