"We learn from here the humility of the Holy One, Blessed is He. Since man is in the likeness of the angels, and they would be jealous of him, for this reason, He consulted them."

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Source : Commenting on Gen. 1:26; why does it say "Let us make man"?,

Rashi

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“There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative.”
“There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).”
“Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.”
“I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.”

Source : "Artists in Their Studios: Caio Fonseca". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 2, 2012.
“I don t wanna see old people on a rock & roll stage.”
“My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies.”
“I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,â€” not only as works of mechanism, but works of intelligence, not only as under laws, but under a Lawgiver, wise and good.”

Source : James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics”, p.147
“I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”

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