"... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing."

-- George Eliot

#Believe Quotes #Sight Quotes #Advancement Quotes

“Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.”
“The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.”
“If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress.”
“Youâ€™ve always been nuts. Thatâ€™s fine. I can deal with nuts. But lately, youâ€™ve been depressed nuts. I canâ€™t deal with that. - Anthony”
“Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1927). “Concerning man's origin: being the presidential address given at the meeting of the British association held in Leeds on August 31, 1927, and recent essays on Darwinian subjects”
“What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.”
“Science has failed our mother Earth.”
“There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”

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