"Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return."

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Source : 'The Retreat' l.29 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

Henry Vaughan

#Moving Quotes #Fall Quotes #Men Quotes

“Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.”
“There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.”
“Never look a tulip in the eye...”
“What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.”
“Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age ...”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.333
“Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have a chance of arriving by random shuffling, of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.”
“I think humor is actually a very serious thing. I think the people who shaped culture, for the better, in the last 50 years or so, more than almost anyone else are people like Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor and even Chris Rock, back when he was doing the edgier stuff.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.”

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