"The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God."

-- Annie Dillard

#Mind Quotes #World Quotes #Want Quotes

“If a claim is worth making, make it in the most specific way”

Source : "Scientific Advertising".
“People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.”

Source : "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.
“America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of a variety of destructive pseudo-Christianities in its place.”

Source : Ross Douthat (2013). “Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“The hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.”
“But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!”
“Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress”
“You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.”
“Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, weâ€™ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce.”

Source : Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books

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