"People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines what God is able to do with them in the future."

-- Jim Cymbala

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“I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.”
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.”
“I am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.”
“One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.”
“In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended. In Illumination, all things appear as is. Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom. The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.”
“The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world.”

Source : Oral History Project Interview, California Institute of Technology Archives, p. 88, oralhistories.library.caltech.edu. 1978.
“I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.”
“Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a hypothesis, not vice versa.”

Source : Allen Steele (2011). “Hex”, p.138, Penguin

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