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“Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.”
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“One thing is certain, wherever we go there is a proof that the people are keeping the commandments of the Lord, especially the first one -- to multiply and replenish the earth.”
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“I don't belong to any denomination or religion, I just belong to God.”
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“I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.”
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“Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.”
Source : George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.122
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“The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all being in love, as distinct from particular acts of loving, it is a first principle. So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice, it dismantles and abolishes the horizon within which our knowing and choosing went on, and it sets up a new horizon within which the love of God transvalues our values and the eyes of that love transform our knowing.”
Source : Bernard Lonergan (2016). “A Second Collection”, p.131, University of Toronto Press
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“While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 357), 1895.
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“I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.”