"I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics."

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Source : "The Days of My Life : An Autobiography" by Julius Sumner Miller, (p. 212), 1989.

Julius Sumner Miller

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“Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.”
“Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.”
“Shamanism is not a course, but a life journey.”
“Hamas murders not only Israelis, but also Palestinians whose political stance is different from that which its group promotes; that is, its radical religious outlook in which Islam is the solution to the world's problems.”
“During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.”
“I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.”
“Women are good for only one thing - lying on their backs.”
“Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple of centuries did we invent industry. We are a species that has spent 99 per cent of its history as hunter-gatherers. We haven't had time for our unconscious minds and our unconscious needs to have changed. If you like, our souls have not changed, and this is true whether or not we believe that we have them.”

Source : Simon Barnes (2008). “How to be Wild”, p.39, Short Books

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