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“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
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all else is poor translation.”
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“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
― Angels & Demons
― Angels & Demons
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
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“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.”
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