"It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand."

-- Nancy Werlin

#Thinking Quotes #Secret Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.”

Source : Marcus Borg (2012). “Speaking Christian: Recovering the lost meaning of Christian words”, p.103, SPCK
“Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.”

Source : Countee Cullen, Gerald Lyn Early (1991). “My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance”, Doubleday Books
“To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.”

Source : Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.79, Cambridge University Press
“They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.”
“That sense â€“ the only true patriotism â€“ comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature â€˜libertyâ€™ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.”
“I didn't get into music until the early 90s when I heard rap music for the first time.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I'm addicted to creating and writing.”
“No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.”

Source : Roy Wood Sellars (1922). “Evolutionary naturalism”

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