"I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."

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Amy Tan

#Grateful Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.”
“I know I promised. I said, 'Ask, seek, knock and you will find.' You say, 'But I have found loss. I have found dispossession. I have found letting go.' And I would say to you that until you dispossess what you have you can never possess what I want to give to you. Until you surrender your understanding, you will never get My wisdom. You would say, 'Lord, what is at the end of this process?'”
“Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress. It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition, whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.”
“I grew up like Athenaâ€”covered with playing cards instead of armorâ€”and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.”
“On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.”
“...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.”

Source : Robert Anton Wilson (1977). “Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati”, New Falcon Pubns
“It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day”
“The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.”

Source : "On Man". 1849.

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