"The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is."

-- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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“Mary is the lily in God's garden.”
“The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be in physical science is only an idealized world, while the real universe is the spiritual universe in which spiritual values count for everything.”
“A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.”

Source : Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1963). “The Alderson story: my life as a political prisoner”, Intl Pub
“The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.”
“For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.”
“Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'”
“I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.'”
“When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.”

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