"Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself."

-- Gabriel Marcel

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“No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.”
“The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.”
“I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast.”

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“To know and experience what God can do, we must first realize and acknowledge what we cannot do. We must get our eyes off of ourselves and our limited ability, and totally onto Him and His infinite power.”
“Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.”

Source : Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.43, Cambridge University Press
“But that was the thing about zero. Its weakness. Even if zero had taken over the entire universe, the biggest fascist of all, one tiny gesture could deny it. One footprint, one atom. You didn't have to be a genius. You didn't even have to know that was what you were doing. You made a mark. You changed something. It said, "A human being passed here." And changed zero to one.”
“Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions, Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them. Thinking, 'I alone shall do it' Is the self-confidence of action.”
“Put the kids in with a few old pappy guys who still like to win and the combination is unbeatable.”

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