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“One must, however, take care not to understand this conversation with God--the conversation of which I have to speak in this book and in almost all the works which followed--as something happening solely alongside or above the everyday. God's speech to men penetrates what happens in the life of each one of us, and all that happens in the world around us, biographical and historical, and makes it for you and me into instruction, message, demand. Happening upon happening, situation upon situation, are enabled and empowered by the personal speech of God to demand of the human person that he take his stand and make his decision. Often enough we think there is nothing to hear, but long before we have ourselves put wax in our ears.
(Postscript, October 1957)”
― Martin Buber, I and Thou

“But there's really no question. It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living or get busy dying”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“But--pardon me if I seem inquisitive--are you not all rather--ahem!--rather unusual?' asked the Woggle-Bug, looking from one to another with unconcealed interest.
'Not more so than yourself,' answered the Scarecrow. 'Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Marvellous Land of Oz

“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current concepts, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession