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“At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate in their own terms, but they don't address the actual experience of how one or other aspect of religion becomes existentially meaningful to us in our actual lives. The fact that we ourselves are the subject of investigation makes all the difference.”
Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
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“Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones; Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss, The pieces kiss again, no end to this.”
Source : John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”
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“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”
Source : "The Eye of the World". Book by Robert Jordan, 1990.
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“People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.”
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“Athletes and actors do really crazy things and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things in an extreme manner.”
Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
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“I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’”
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“If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.”
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“The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.”
Source : James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.7, St. Martin's Griffin