"My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences."

-- James Buchan

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“God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and their God. The believer's enemies are typically internal rather than external, and they pose a powerful threat to spiritual health and progress.”
“She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.”
“In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.”
“God can be sensed when we gaze with trembling hearts at that power of his which controls, guides, and rules everything, when we contemplate his immense knowledge and his knowing look which the secrets of the heart cannot evade.”
“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”

Source : Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.129, Library of America
“We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.”
“When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.”

Source : Phillip Moffitt (2012). “Emotional Chaos to Clarity: Move from the Chaos of the Reactive Mind to the Clarity of the Responsive Mind”, p.147, Penguin
“The most effective coquetry is innocence.”

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