"When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power."

-- Rudolf Steiner

#Prayer Quotes #Past Quotes #Taught Quotes

“Be classy. Anything but trashy.”
“There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.92, Penguin
“Never look back on something bad, yesterday is gone, today is now, tomorrow doesn't exist.”
“The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.”

Source : Sir John Richard Hicks (1963). “The theory of wages”
“Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)”
“The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.”
“I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.”

Source : Edward G. Robinson, Leonard Spigelgass (1973). “All my yesterdays: an autobiography”
“It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.)”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.144, Cambridge University Press

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