"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open."

-- Pauline Kael

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“We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, SteinerBooks
“The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire.”

Source : Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books
“An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.”

Source : Alfred Edersheim (1874). “The Temple: Its Ministry and Services, as They Were at the Time of Jesus Christ”, p.80
“I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We don't fall in love, we fall in lust. We ascend to love.”
“Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people.”
“Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.”
“I don't believe the old statement, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." If that were the case, then Cadillacs and Jaguars and Mercedes would never make a change. I've always looked for ways to make things better.”

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