"If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine."

-- Johannes Tauler

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“No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre”
“The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.”

Source : Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.144, Transaction Publishers
“We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.”
“You may envy every one, but no one envies you.”
“I've been stocking my nuts away like a squirrel for 15 years. I don't have kids, I don't have a wife. I own my own house. I don't owe anybody for it so I put my nuts away. I really made a commitment to myself to just do what I like to do and want to do, and not to do anything. I'm not even going to give six weeks away for money anymore, you know?”
“Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.15, Library of Alexandria
“I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780)”
“We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality.”

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