"Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science encourages conceit. He is above his companions. A hieroglyphic is a spell. The gnostic dogma is cuneiform writing to the million. Moreover, the vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself in a child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shells."

-- Robert Aris Willmott

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“The only person worthy of your love is not one who overstayed in the relationship without a single change, but one, who appeared like an angel, and used a single day to make a million change.”
“It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.”

Source : Quoted in Forbes, 14 May 1990
“Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.”
“Every moment was a before and an after. Every moment was a now to be lived.”
“American citizens were targeted and nothing is going to be done about it.”
“In this day and age of digital media, as we've learned, it's not as though nobody's going to find out what you said.”

Source : "Transcript: Face to Face with Sen. Bennet". Interview with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2012.
“I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.”
“I'm a mediator by training and inclination.”

Source : "Back to the Basics" by Joan Blades, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2006.

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