"Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it."

-- Joseph Addison

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“I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.”
“As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press
“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
“Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained”

Source : Malcolm Muggeridge (1978). “A twentieth century testimony”, Thomas Nelson Publishers
“We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.”

Source : James Ramsey Ullman (1951). “River of the Sun”
“The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness they had to be distorted enormously in order to contain it all. Womanhood was strong in Kitwancool.”
“The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust”
“Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.”

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