"I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose."

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Paula Fox

#Purpose Quotes #Combination Quotes #Cooks Quotes

“God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.”
“You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robert Ringer from Oct 30, 2013
“There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.”

Source : "Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Religion in Russia". www.forerunner.com. May 1, 1996.
“To speak a true word is to transform the world.”
“A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory.”

Source : William John Macquorn Rankine, Peter Guthrie Tait (1881). “Miscellaneous Scientific Papers”
“The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better shared with friends. You can't really get high with a bad attitude. Kindness and sweetness exhilarates your stone. Stolen grass doesn't get you as high. The old hippie ethic really counts”
“The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to establish relationships based on honesty and empathy, which will eventually fulfill everyone's needs.”
“We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice.”

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