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Justin Martyr

"We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and figures of dead men."

Source : Saint Justin Martyr, Saint Justin (Martyr), Thomas B. Falls, D.D. (2010). “The First Apology, The Second Apology, Dialogue with Trypho, Exhortation to the Greeks, Discourse to the Greeks, The Monarchy Or The Rule of God (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 6)”, p.394, CUA Press

Justin Martyr

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“Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.”
“[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.290, A&C Black
“The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning.”
“Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.”
“I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.”
“In his life, Donald Trump's had a great track record of failure, bankruptcies, running from Vietnam, everything like that.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is loveâ€”loving ourselves as well as others.”

"We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and figures of dead men."

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