"That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes. In that world there is need of spirituality, faith, assurance, the knowledge and love of God. These he must attain in this world so that after his ascension from the earthly to the heavenly Kingdom he shall find all that is needful in that eternal life ready for him."

-- Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

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“A chain of iron is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.”
“For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativityâ€”or even western creativityâ€”but this assumption was seriously in error.”
“I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals.”
“In science men have learned consciously to subordinate themselves to a common purpose without losing the individuality of their achievements. Each one knows that his work depends on that of his predecessors and colleagues, and that it can only reach its fruition through the work of his successors. In science men collaborate not because they are forced to by superior authority or because they blindly follow some chosen leader, but because they realize that only in this willing collaboration can each man find his goal.”

Source : "The Social Function of Science". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1939.
“The â€˜experimentalâ€™ writer, then, is simply following the storyâ€™s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story is the story. See? Sometimes this is very hard to accept and sometimes too easy. On the one hand, thereâ€™s the writer who canâ€™t face his fate: that the telling of a story has nothing at all to do with him; on the other hand, thereâ€™s the one who faces it too well: that the telling of the story has nothing at all to do with him”
“All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.”
“I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel very real. If this was going to be a story about kids discovering time travel and building a time machine that we needed to believe that they really did it .”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.”

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