"The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective."

-- Richard Schickel

#Law Quotes #Years Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.”
“Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.”
“Drink from the stars and toss your hat over the moon.”
“Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.”

Source : "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.
“What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.”
“You bet I did and I enjoyed it.”
“Everyone is a genius at being themselves”
“Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature”

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