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Ralph Cudworth

"Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it."

Source : Ralph Cudworth (1820). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated”, p.322

Ralph Cudworth

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“I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.”
“By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.”
“In every work of art, the artist himself is present.”
“When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.”

Source : "Transforming Teresa" By Gail Sheehy, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2004.
“Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.”
“Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer â€” that it was better to leave well enough alone, to avoid unnecessary encounters with people youâ€™d left behind, to not keep poking at that sore tooth with the tip of your tongue. Not because you didnâ€™t love them anymore, but because you did, and because that love was useless now, just another dull ache in your phantom limb.”
“Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence”
“In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair Will you still care? Will you be there? In my trials and my tribulations Through our doubts and frustrations In my violence, in my tribulence Through my fear and my confessions In my Anguish and my pain Through my joy and my sorrow In the promise of another tomorrow I'll never let you part, for you're always in my heart”

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