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“Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.”
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“But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.”
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“If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.”
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“Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying the information from the outside word must result in reinforcement of the connection between those cells. These day, this is known as a Hebbian synapse, but von Hayek quite independently came upon the idea. I think the essence of his analysis still remains with us.”
Source : "Through a Computer Darkly: Group Selection and Higher Brain Function". Gerald Edelman, "Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences", Volume 36, No. 1 (p. 25), www.jstor.org. October 1982. 
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“The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.”
Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's World Woman's Place”
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“In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest — my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.”
Source : Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.13, Penguin
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“Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper than feelings. We believe, whether we see or not. We believe, whether we feel or not.”
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“Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.”
