A large city cannot be experientially known its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.Aldous Huxley
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
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The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.
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The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
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The word prayer is applied to at least four distinct procedures petition, intercession, adoration, and contemplation.
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The business of a seer is to see and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
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