"The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure."

-- Robert Updegraff

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“The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.”
“Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.”
“Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.”

Source : Andrew Pyper (2014). “The Demonologist: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
“Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.”
“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.”
“Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?”

Source : B. B. Warfield (2018). “The Religious Life of Theological Students”, p.4, CrossReach Publications via PublishDrive
“Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.”
“Success is one thing, impact is another”

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