"Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who delivered the droughts and floods and plagues. . . ."

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Source : Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.12, Oxford University Press, USA

Ursula Goodenough

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“Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.”
“Who am I that I should urge these missionaries to confess their sins in public, when, for all I know, they may be living nearer to God than I am? The Spirit of God does not need me to act as His detective.”

Source : Jonathan Goforth (0101). “"By my Spirit"”, p.8, Solid Christian Books
“Huge events in life inform you in so many ways that you know about and many other ways that you cannot even comprehend. To go through a big experience can have such a profound impact on everything that you do. It's the common thing that everyone says about a tragedy - it is a really tough thing to happen but it is amazing, and a gift, if you can look at the positive aspects that come out and the friendships that are made from the people that provided help and support.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make.”

Source : "An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994".
“If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!”
“I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.”
“I don't want to change. I haven't done it before, I won't do it now.”
“[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It would be as if every vertebrate in North America somehow felt drawn to a particular house in Peoria, Illinois. Are we really that interesting?”

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