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"The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?"
"An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people."
"Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour."
"If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn."
"A girl does not need anyone who does not need her."
"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank."
"Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?"
"Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past."
"What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy."
"No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated."
"No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death does not exist.'"
"The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"
"Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him."
"You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does."
"I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job."
"God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them."
"If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?"
"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."
"If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t."
"Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth."
