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“We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
Source : Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company
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“Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when the maternal lap of everlasting Love shall be opened to us, and the full peace of God breathe around us from the palmy summits of Eden.”
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“Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.”
Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.150, tredition
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“Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.”
Source : Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.27, Cornell University Press
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“I support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and of course every other country in the world... That does not require economic sanctions...I think we've got to take the risk and give up economic sanctions while hanging on to the disarmament programme and allow the Iraqis to get on with rebuilding their country.”
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“I want my film to be possible to use as a reference when we are trying to live our lives.”
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“To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.”
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“Anyone who expects a person to change something as private and personal as who they hold in their arms at night needs to change their own judgmental attitude.”