"For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“Itâ€™s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to prove, and nothing to protect. Such freedom is my best description of Christian maturity, because once you know that your â€œIâ€ is great and one with God, you can ironically be quite content with a small and ordinary â€œI.â€ No grandstanding is necessary. Any question of your own importance or dignity has already been resolved once and for all and forever.”
“Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!”
“When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.”
“He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.”
“I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
“I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.”
“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.”
“I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me.”

Source : "Charles Blow on Masculinity, Trayvon Martin, and Reliving Childhood Trauma". Interview with Julia Lurie, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2014.

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