"Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path."

-- Robert Jordan

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“From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we turn the principle is confirmed, encouraging us to become 'human havings' and 'human doings' rather than human beings.”
“What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possibleâ€” significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call â€˜Significant Formâ€™; and â€˜Significant Formâ€™ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.”
“Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.”
“The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where the elites call the shots. Inside accounts reveal the extent to which Johnson and Nixon's conduct of the Vietnam War was constrained by the huge anti-war movement. It was the civil rights movement, not compelling arguments, that convinced members of Congress to end legal racial discrimination.”

Source : "Won’t You Please Come to Chicago?" by Dean Baker, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Jack: Where to, Miss? Rose: To the stars.”
“The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is given its ultimate fulfillment as an expression of the wisdom of Christ.”
“Let's say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don't worry, the man was already dead. Or maybe you should worry, because you're the one who shot him.”

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