"Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation."

-- William James

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“Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.”
“The strength of the script, for me, was that you're really left, right till the end, to know what's happening. This seemingly perfect, happy, kooky real relationship slowly turns into something horrifying, but you get there through a filter of reality with all of it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fearâ€”dogs, alligators or men!”

Source : Solomon Northup, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Twelve Years A Slave: illustrated Original Edition With Bonus of Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.74, Ageless Reads
“It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.”

Source : Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.12, Northwestern University Press
“Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.”

Source : Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.4, New Society Publishers
“It was the first time in years I didnâ€™t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.”
“We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament”

Source : Edward Heath's speech to Conservative Party Conference (October 10, 1970), as quoted in John Campbell "Edward Heath" (p. 311), 1993.
“I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.”

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