"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

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Source : John Jay Chapman, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1937). “John Jay Chapman and his letters ...”

John Jay Chapman

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“A human life is a story told by God.”
“It was a weird game. There was ugly shooting and a lot of turnovers and mistakes, and we were just fortunate to get the win. I should have done better, but it was just a very ugly and weird game... I knew the game was going to be an ugly game when I saw those three guys at the scorer's table. Ugly people call ugly games.”
“The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.”
“To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.”

Source : bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.110, Routledge
“At the end of the day, I'm very convinced that you're going to be judged on how you are as a husband and as a father and not on how many bowl games we won,”
“Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand”
“To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No.”

Source : "The Faith of a Heretic" by Walter Kaufmann, 1959.
“Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.”

Source : Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.85, Penguin

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