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"It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go."
"A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy"
"A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular."
"Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for."
"I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture."
"Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already."
"[It is] essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject"
"Every artist who evolves a style does so from illusive elements that inhabit his or her visual storehouse."
"Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled."
"Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays."
"The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it."
"I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself."
"Having courage does not mean we are unafraid."
"I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. And what humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me."
"He turned into a rhinocerous," Ms. Smirt said. "He does that," Sabrina said."
"Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we all picked up on (everyone in the room at IPCC was in agreement that this was a problem and a potential distraction/detraction from the reasonably consensus viewpoint we'd like to show w/ the Jones et al and Mann et al series)."
"Nothing else exists when art does."
"Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness."
"For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits."
"Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude."
