"Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged."

-- J Harlen Bretz

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“My mind on my money, my money on my mind.”

Source : "Song: 'Gin and Juice'". 1993.
“Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception. Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life. Through man's ingenuity for getting himself into trouble appears to be endless, the Infinite Succor is no less resourceful.”

Source : "Autobiography of a Yogi". Ch. 35 : The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya. Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.
“Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.”
“Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.”
“People go, 'What do you want to do?' What do you want to do? What are you feeling? Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to doâ€”that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.”
“The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.”

Source : Elizabeth Prentiss (1871). “Stepping Heavenward. By the author of 'The flower of the family'.”, p.235
“I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.”

Source : In Congress, when President Polk sent a message after the defeat of the Mexican General Arista by General Taylor, May, 1846.
“In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.”

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