"Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school."

-- Ivan Illich

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“Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.”
“Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.”

Source : "Ruth Wilson". Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.
“You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the other side of the gravestone.”
“Our sadness wonâ€™t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.”
“Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.”
“My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you werenâ€™t glitter, well, that only left one other option.”

Source : Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.30, Harlequin
“The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.”

Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“We have to continue at a high level and make them take tough shots.”

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