"There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man, and he drank water; and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness."

-- Joseph Campbell

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“Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.”
“Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.”
“All dreams appear impossible until somebody makes them happen.”
“The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain”
“There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and their dupes, trained not to think for themselves, will swallow any egregious rot, provided it is dressed up with long words and an affectation of objectivity to make it sound scientific.”

Source : Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”
“The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself”
“The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.”
“The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.”

Source : Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

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