"We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future."

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Gregory Bateson

“If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wrong, you are really taking an evolutionary step.”

Source : Source: www.scottlondon.com
“Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality”

Source : Song: Boom, Like That, Album: Shangri-La, 2004
“We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.”
“The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.”
“They [the New World Order] want to reduce the population [to 500 million] and their target date is May 5th of 2000. [.....] The demons who call themselves spirit guides have told them. "You know, you have to reduce the population by May 5th." Because May 5th is Karl Marx's birthday, you know, enter the Age of Aquarius. [.....] I suspect they may use Y2K as an excuse to create some little problems here, we shall have to wait and see.”
“When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered.”

Source : Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.279, Paulist Press
“One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.”
“When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways.”

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