"It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4)"

-- Thomas Merton

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“In hell, all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.”
“Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.”

Source : Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - dont depend on other people, do it yourself.”

Source : "America's Most Colorful Congresswoman: Kyrsten Sinema" by Ann Friedman, www.elle.com. May 22, 2013.
“The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.”
“We unified, we looked past and we're impervious to the constant criticism of naysayer.”
“If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.”

Source : "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.
“Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.”
“Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is seen as one and the same continuing process of endless growth. Building Zion, a literal Kingdom of God on earth, has therefore meant an identity of religious and economic values: in the daily affairs of the Kingdom, Latter-day Saint scriptures call for unity, welfare, and economic independence.”

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