"God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech."

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Source : "Institutes of Oratory (Volume II)". Book by Quintilian, 95 CE.

Quintilian

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“It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.”

Source : "Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe . . . and Carl Sagan". Skeptical Inquirer Interview, Volume 27.6, www.csicop.org. November / December 2003.
“When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!”
“I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.”
“I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open to being.”
“The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.”
“Men," said Mr. Kyle, "people have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love--the deepest kind of love.”

Source : Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.214, Laurel Leaf
“Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.”
“It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.”

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