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Albertus Magnus

"Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign. De Cometis"

-- Albertus Magnus

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“In the face of nature's overwhelming forces, humans needed a God who would protect them from harm. When they felt that they had broken the law or committed wrongdoing, people turned to a God who would judge them on the one hand and redeem their sins on the other. In this way, purely from slef-interest, the project of creating God in our own image proceeded--and continues to proceed.”
“What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.”
“That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all, the privileges of the politicians are far greater compared with the ordinary folk than in any other country. The nations that have gone for freedom, justice and independence of people have still freedom and justice, and they have far more equality between their people, far more respect for each individual than the other nations. Go my way. You will get freedom and justice and much less difference between people than you do in the Soviet Union.”
“A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama”

Source : Guy Steele (1990). “Common LISP: The Language”, p.406, Elsevier
“You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.”

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“The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.”

Source : Robert Walser (2013). “The Walk”, p.10, Profile Books
“Whatever news we get about the scans, Iâ€™m not going to die when we hear it. I wonâ€™t die the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that. So today, right now, well this is a wonderful day. And I want you to know how much Iâ€™m enjoying it.â€ I thought about that, and about Jaiâ€™s smile. I knew then. Thatâ€™s the way the rest of my life would need to be lived.”
“Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.”

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