"Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it."

-- Ramakrishna

#Nuts Quotes #Dry Quotes #Green Quotes

“I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.”
“[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. â€¦ [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society â€“ this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means.”
“Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.”
“I haven't done as much proper travelling as I'd like to have done. However, I know how important the weather is for my mood and spirits.”
“There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.”
“You never know how far you can go unless you run.”
“If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.”

Source : Jack Gantos (1999). “Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade”, p.19, Macmillan
“Today we cannot assume people, even all Christians, understand the Bible's implicit, underlying view of reality. We have to dig it out and show it to people, including Christians, and ask them to "see reality as this" rather than "as that" - where "that" refers to any number of unbiblical ideas about reality.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com

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