"Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life."

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Source : Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs (1952). “Today's children and yesterday's heritage: a philosophy of creative religious development”

Sophia Lyon Fahs

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“Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.”
“The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts...Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.”

Source : "The Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 19: 'The Secular Scripture' and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991". Book by Northrop Frye, November 1, 2005.
“Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.”

Source : Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, August 1, 1955.
“I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.”
“My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.”

Source : "Behind the Scenes With Bibhu Mohapatra at Lakme Fashion Week" by Marissa Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2012.
“I always think of the economy as going down a pretty broad road that has mud on either side - for inflation and deflation. What hurts the market is when we unexpectedly swerve into one of those mud banks.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him ... a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib ... The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance.”

Source : "How Obama prepped world for the Antichrist". www.wnd.com. August 1, 2008.
“Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused....”

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