“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”

Tagged: inspirational-quotes writing-inspiration writing-philosophy

“One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.”

Tagged: education

“However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!”

Tagged: Face Judged However

“A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour.”

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“A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.”

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“When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.”

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“...people with nothing to declare carry the most.”

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“After listening and getting to know more about you. Also, feeling a deep connection between us that goes beyond physical attraction. I'm beginning to feel for, so much more than the friendship that I waited to grow with you. I'm not going to try and rush things. However, I don't want to wait until it's to late.”

Tagged: friendship life love-story romance true-love

“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.”

Tagged: future life

“Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed teaching students 'the full range of scientific views' about Darwinian evolution.”

Tagged: biology darwinism evolution id intelligent-design macro-evolution macroevolution science scientific-inquiry

“It's a philosophical minefield!"Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in a fireball. Descartes and Nietzsche looked on appalled. He pulled himself together.”

Tagged: humor philosophy

“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.”

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“When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.”

Tagged: death war

“The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.”

Tagged: inspirational life love

“If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations”

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