"Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day."

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Source : Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.18, New World Library

Kent Nerburn

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“An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.”
“When horror turns into gore, when you show the monster, the killings, and the blood, it loses its suggestive powers. It loses part of what makes a horror film a horror film, which is that the images you see develop in your brain and you become the one imagining what you are not seeing on screen.”
“The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.”

Source : FaceBook post by Boris Becker from Oct 22, 2013
“People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.”

Source : "The Prince of Reason". Interview with Robert Epstein, www.psychologytoday.com. June 9, 2016.
“The Christian church has a long history of gradually absorbing scientific perspectives and new discoveries. It seems to me that, in fact, that has been one of the strengths of Christianity - it has ultimately had great flexibility in absorbing new information about the world that we get from science.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.”
“At some point, Moore's law will break down.”

Source : Seth Lloyd (2011). “Programming The Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos”, p.157, Random House
“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”

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