"It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives."

-- John Flavel

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“There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.”

Source : "What Comes Naturally". www.newyorker.com. November 25, 2002.
“The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.”
“Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.”
“Some people think they are too good to walk the same earth as the rest of us, let alone attend the same church.”
“Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.”
“You got to sue the offensive line for non-support”
“Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.”
“When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, or an imminent cliff, or a car heading towards you. This might be disturbing to a lot of people, but some of those guesses are errors.”

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