"There is nothing very 'normal' about nature."

-- Loren Eiseley

“Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasnâ€™t.”
“Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.”
“You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy and thought I had come to terms with who I am, but there's something in the process of writing that unlocks other experiences, other emotions and you have to be prepared for that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.”
“The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.”

Source : John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.176
“Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.”

Source : Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”
“Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.”

Source : Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.534, Macmillan
“Now people want Brian Williams to resign, but it could have a happy ending. Apparently what he said was such a blatant departure from the truth, today he got an offer from Fox News.”

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