"In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take."

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Alexander Pope

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“Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.”
“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
“The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.”
“You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation are salient features but I also strive to make music that is peaceful. I want to make music that aids world peace in the same way that the people who shaped my development did.”
“We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.”
“It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures.”
“He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.”
“I'd like to meet god. Not to question it, just to have a peak at what it is. I say 'it' because we don't know what it is.”

Source : Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2005.

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