"The right procedure: You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election. Prove your conversion, and then never doubt your election. If you cannot yet prove it, set upon a present and thorough turning. Whatever purposes be, which are secret, I am sure His promises are plain. How desperately do rebels argue! "If I am elected I shall be saved, do what I will. If not, I shall be damned, do what I can." Perverse sinner, will you begin where you should end?"

-- Joseph Alleine

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“when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather than reality. On paper one can understand Gulliver, or Kafka, or Dante. But let a man go about behaving as if he were a giant or a midget, or caught in a cosmic plot directed at himself, or in heaven or hell, and we feel horror - we want to disavow him to proclaim him as far removed as possible from ourselves.”

Source : Helen Eustis (2015). “The Horizontal Man: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.245, Library of America
“Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.”
“Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up.”

Source : "Dare To Be 100: Worse Or Better World? The Flynn Effect" by Walter M. Bortz II, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2016.
“Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.”
“Stop looking at the Web as merely a display opportunity and not a way to interact. That does not create a new business model, it just shifts one that isn't growing and is outdated. The reason sites like Google are stealing advertisers from daily newspapers is not because Google has more eyeballs. It's because Google used the interactivity of the Web to deliver a new, better way to advertise.”
“The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bulls**t.”
“Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.”

Source : Robert Edmond Jones, Delbert Unruh (1992). “Towards a new theatre: the lectures of Robert Edmond Jones”, Amadeus Press
“That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.' It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.”

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