"Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction."

-- I. A. Richards

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“I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.”
“Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.”
“Charity is love; not all love is charity.”
“The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.”

Source : Jerry Bridges (1983). “The practice of godliness”, NavPress Publishing Group
“There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.”
“I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.”
“I would be content with any job, however thankless, in any quarter, however remote, if I had the chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and a solitary place glad.”
“We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer â€˜Tomorrow,â€™ his name is today.”

Source : "His Name is Today". Poem by Gabriela Mistral, mid 1900s.

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