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Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art. C. S. Lewis
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If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
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If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'
wisdom thinking differences
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.
wisdom mistake imperfection
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
wisdom heart love-is
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
wisdom absent
The absent are easily refuted.
wisdom gaps different
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
wisdom medicine disease
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
nature people
Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so. Rousas John Rushdoony
nature science technology
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
nature travel earth
"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."
nature home intelligent
When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place. Barry Lopez
nature-love consolation
A love of nature is a consolation against failure. Berthe Morisot
nature winter weather
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. Carl Reiner
nature passion heart
The passion to explore is at the heart of being human. Carl Sagan
nature years moose
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old. Bill Bryson
nature science past
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future). Benoit Mandelbrot
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Record-breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince drove significantly higher results in children's book publishing and distribution and for the company overall,
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Relative to most of the country, it's still rather mild, but when people book Florida vacations, they're not expecting temperatures in the 40s.
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Or have We given them a book before it so that they hold fast to it? / Nay! they say: We found our fathers on a course, and surely we are guided by their footsteps.
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Part of the reason I wrote the book was that so many people were leaving their jobs (to invest in foreclosed homes), and they had no idea of what they are doing.
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passports to new and exciting worlds... and I know that I would not be the person I am today had it not been for my love of reading. Oprah Winfrey
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say. Malorie Blackman
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Our major acquisitions and joint ventures ... will be shown on the books for the second half of the year,
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Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. Martin Luther
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Order books are full and people are operating closer to capacity, so that companies are building up employment again.