"Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man."

-- Orlando Aloysius Battista

#Knowledge Quotes #Men Quotes #Despair Quotes

“It would have to stand on the basis of what somebody had done to it and that would be the basis on which it would be judged. So it's a funny art form. You gain a great deal when you have good collaborators and sometimes people just don't understand what you've done.”
“Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.”
“Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.”
“The only constant I can find is hard work.”

Source : "Paul Dano: there's light at the end of his journeys into darkness". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.
“Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.”
“Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.”

Source : Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.164, St. Martin's Press
“We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.”

Source : "Thoughts in Solitude". Book by Thomas Merton, 1958.
“The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.”

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