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"[...]he will admit it as a fact of nature that was previously unknown to him. In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith. Once the realist comes to believe, then, precisely because of his realism, he must also allow for miracles." — Jul 05, 2016 12:20AM
"[...]he will admit it as a fact of nature that was previously unknown to him. In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith. Once the realist comes to believe, then, precisely because of his realism, he must also allow for miracles." — Jul 05, 2016 12:20AM
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"It is not nature that defines woman; it is she who defines herself by dealing with nature on her own account in her emotional life." — Jan 11, 2016 01:06AM
"It is not nature that defines woman; it is she who defines herself by dealing with nature on her own account in her emotional life." — Jan 11, 2016 01:06AM
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"[...]You can love someone but not accept him; you can accept someone but not love him. I wrongly felt the flaws in my parents' acceptance as deficits in their love. Now, I think their primary experience was of having a child who spoke a language they'd never thought of studying." — May 01, 2017 09:20PM
"[...]You can love someone but not accept him; you can accept someone but not love him. I wrongly felt the flaws in my parents' acceptance as deficits in their love. Now, I think their primary experience was of having a child who spoke a language they'd never thought of studying." — May 01, 2017 09:20PM
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
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“I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”
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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
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“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
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“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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