"The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically."

-- Oswald Chambers

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“We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire.”
“Thinking like your prey. . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities.”
“Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.”
“We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement of younger scholars become ever more important to him than his own achievements.”

Source : Richard Willstätter (1965). “From My Life”
“The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.”
“Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you”

Source : "The Guardian profile: Ken Livingstone" by Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.
“I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.”
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”

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