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“Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.”
Source : Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.161, Simon and Schuster
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“Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.”
Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.30, Vintage
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“I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should give back, ... I should do something for my people, but ... it's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.”
Source : "Then & Now: Corazon Aquino", www.cnn.com. September 19, 2005.
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“I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.”
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“Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.”
Source : "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.
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“Stop eating 'dead' foods: junk, fried, and fast foods, as well as processed carbs. They’re loaded with sugar and other additives. The more live foods we eat (fruits and vegetables), the more alive we feel. The more dead foods we eat...well, you get the idea.”
Source : Tony Horton (2010). “Bring It!: The Revolutionary Fitness Plan for All Levels That Burns Fat, Builds Muscle, and Shreds Inches”, p.220, Rodale
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“and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.”
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“Then it’s just Venia, whose skin is so pale her tattoos appear to be leaping off it. Almost rigid with determination, she does my hair and nails and makeup, fingers flying swiftly to compensate for her absent teammates. The whole time, she avoids my gaze. It’s only when Cinna shows up to approve me and dismiss her that she takes my hands, looks me straight in the eye, and says, “We would all like you to know what a…privilege it has been to make you look your best.†Then she hastens from the room.”