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“To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.”
Source : Thomas Traherne (2007). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.276, Cosimo, Inc.
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“What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.”
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“What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.”
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“I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.”
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“If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.”
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“Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.”
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“The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.”
Source : Matt Ridley (2010). “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves”, p.5, HarperCollins UK
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“So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'”
Source : "Celebrity Bostonians react to bombings" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2013.