"But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself."

-- John Dewey

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“Our position in Christ Jesus is enhanced each time we help someone in trouble.”
“I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.”
“Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.”
“Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.”
“The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.”
“Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.”
“Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him.”

Source : Steven Erikson (2009). “Midnight Tides: (Malazan Book Of Fallen 5)”, p.316, Random House
“Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural, and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between child and parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.”

Source : Rosalind Goforth (2016). “How I Know God Answers Prayer”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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