"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."

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Source : Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company

Mary Antin

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“It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.”

Source : Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.479, Simon and Schuster
“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”
“Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.”
“If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.”

Source : Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.138, The New Press
“We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.”
“Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine man can create. It actually gives a mortal person wings.”
“Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.”
“I distrust anything that you don't hear.”

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