"The inlet of a man's mind is what he learns; the outlet is what he accomplishes. If his mind is not fed by a continued supply of new ideas which he puts to work with purpose, and if there is no outlet in action, his mind becomes stagnant. Such a mind is a danger to the individual who owns it and is useless to the community."

-- Jeremiah Jenks

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“Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly.The only goal worth attaining is complete freedom to be yourself, without illusions and false beliefs.The past and the future exist only in imagination. Everything you did before has no reality. Everything you will do afterward has no reality. Only the thing you are doing now is real.”
“She had breast cancer. No one said she shouldn't run for governor.”
“The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.”
“For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.”

Source : Jonathan MAYHEW (1750). “A Discourse [on Rom. xiii. 1-8] concerning unlimited submission and non-resistance to the higher powers: with some reflections on the resistance made to King Charles I., and on the anniversary of his death, etc”, p.55
“I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Hayley Mills, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.
“I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.”
“Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . . . For that reason alone The Priesthood of Christ is worth all the time it takes to read it with humility, care, and reflection.”
“Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.”

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