"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."

-- Tracy Kidder

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“I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound experience.”
“A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings.”

Source : Michael Lerner (1996). “The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism”, Perseus Books
“For every curiosity headline that succeed in getting results, a dozen will fail.”
“Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.”
“I don’t trust beauty anymore / when will I stop believing it?”

Source : Reginald Shepherd (1996). “Angel, Interrupted”
“I started drama in high school.”
“We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.”
“Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.”

Source : Carl I. Hagen's speech at a local Progress Party chapter in Alfaz del Pi, Spain, April 21, 2006.

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