"One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone."

-- Edith Hamilton

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“The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.”
“The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of death. Wherever I turn - the golden cymbals of judgement, the summoning of the torturers of light.”
“I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.”
“I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.”
“When you win, nothing hurts.”
“Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many dinosaurs might have died this way when a metropolis-sized asteroid or comet struck the earth 65 million years ago.”
“Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.”
“To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Â Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.”

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