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“We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. Oneâ€™s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of oneâ€™s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.11, Counterpoint
“It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy.”

Source : "Q&A: John Lurie and The Invention of Animals". Interview with Joe Keohane, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2014.
“The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His divine company, speaking humbly and lovingly with him in all seasons, at every moment, without limiting the conversation in any way.”

Source : Brother Lawrence (2013). “Spiritual Maxims of Brother Lawrence”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population - weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example.”

Source : "Survival of the selfish" by Sue Blackmore, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2006.
“It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.”
“Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.”
“There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.”
“This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. Itâ€™s not that the network itself is smart; itâ€™s that the individuals get smarter because theyâ€™re connected to the network.”

Source : Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.42, Penguin

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