"There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions."

-- Margaret Halsey

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“At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.”
“Itâ€™s never a good thing when the black volhv says â€œUh-ohâ€ and then runs for his life.”
“In materiality we find some advance faster, some grow stronger, some become weaklings. Until there is redemption through the acceptance of the law (or love of God, as manifested through the Channel or the Way), there can be little or no development in a material or spiritual plane. But all must pass under the rod, even as He-who entered into materiality.”
“It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.”
“Someone tells us that God loves us as a father loves his children. We are reassured. But then something awful happens. Some qualification is made.... We are reassured again. But then perhaps we ask: what is this assurance of God's (appropriately qualified) love worth, what is this apparent guarantee really a guarantee against? Just what would have to happen not merely (morally and wrongly) to tempt but also (logically and rightly) to entitle us to say "God does not love us" or even "God does not exist"?”
“I learned that all things come to those who wait-provided they hustle while they wait.”

Source : Violet Fane (1872). “From Dawn to Noon: Poems”, p.85
“Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]”
“For the will and not the gift makes the giver.”

Source : "Nathan der Weise" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, I. 5, 1779.

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