"The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye."

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James F. Cooper

#Book Quotes #Eye Quotes #Vastness Quotes

“What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial role of museum professionals usurped by self-serving tycoons in the name of economic imperative threatens not only the integrity of individual institutions but the very principle of art held in public trust.”
“It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight.”
“Can collective intelligence save the planet? It's the only hope we have.”
“Hope lies in what the book title says, finding love and community.”
“I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.”
“I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.”
“There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.”

Source : John Smith, Simon Patrick, John Worthington (1821). “Select discourses”, p.467
“One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.”

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