"As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were."

-- Paul Johnson

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“Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.”
“There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.”
“Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.”

Source : Michael Lerner (2000). “Spirit Matters”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated
“Every ethnic group thinks they are the chosen ones. â€¦”
“In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One is crime, one is the military. And it is quite often that some people choose one or the other, their options not being as many as someone from a higher income.”
“Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.”
“Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars.”

Source : Lowell Observatory, Percival Lowell (1898). “Annals of the Lowell Observatory”
“I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous, gauze-like, through which everything one sees in a dream seems, paradoxically, much clearer. A pond becomes a lake, a breeze becomes a storm, a handful of dust is a desert, a grain of sulphur in the blood is a volcanic inferno. What manner of theater is it, in which we are at once playwright, actor, stage manager, scene painter and audience?”

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