"The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college."

-- Joan Walsh Anglund

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“The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, To cast in our lot with the people of God.”

Source : Sarah Doudney (2017). “Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns”, p.196, Lulu.com
“The world is too fascinating to limit yourself to one path or one sort of people.”
“[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.”
“I donâ€™t bring yesterdayâ€™s poses to todayâ€™s practice. I know yesterdayâ€™s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I donâ€™t want yesterdayâ€™s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.”
“Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.”
“Football players win football games.”
“When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.”

Source : Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers
“The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.”

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