"Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it."

-- David Foster Wallace

#Important Quotes

“I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.”
“I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.”
“The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.”
“The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.”
“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.”

Source : Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.6, Oxford University Press, USA
“I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his maker. Rorty argued that secular professors ought â€œto arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own.”
“It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness of its identity and of its place in space and time. Welcome to the human brain, the cathedral of complexity.”
“Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.”

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