"Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on."

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Source : FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Jun 20, 2011

Jayne Anne Phillips

#War Quotes #Moving Quotes #Air Quotes

“The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
“Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 21, 2013
“Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.”
“Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and the Almighty sitting above the firmament the agent in moving the heavenly bodies about it with his own hands, so now a race of biological thinkers had destroyed the old idea of a Creator minutely contriving and fashioning all animals to suit the needs and purposes of man.”

Source : Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.49, Transaction Publishers
“The system should treat all user input as sacred.”

Source : Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.6, Addison-Wesley Professional
“Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.”
“I think everyone who saw Alfred Hitchcock Psycho movie, as I did when I was young, was impacted. The shower scene is nuts. It still is, and I think what's wonderful about it is that it's universal. People understand the darkness and the violence, and it's shocking.”
“...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.”

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