"Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract."

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Margaret Atwood

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“The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.”

Source : Jack Horner, James Gorman (2009). “How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution”, p.37, Penguin
“I heard when I talk, they all listen, They hang on every word from the God, they all Christians. I baptize 'em with lines, this is y'all christenin' Bless with the gift of my presence, this y'all's Christmas.”
“I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.”
“the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.”
“If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.”
“The most important function of art and science is to Awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive.”
“The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.”

Source : Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.32, Courier Corporation
“I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.”

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