Evelyn Underhill Quotes
The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.
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And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
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The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.
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By now you've heard the constant right wing attacks on the elite media and the liberal elite, who may or may not be part of Washington elite, a subset of the East Coast elite, which is overtly influenced by the Hollywood elite. So, basically, unless you're a shit-kicker from Kansas, you're with the terrorists.
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Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
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Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.
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If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.
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Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.
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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
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God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.
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The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
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I don't know. At the end of spring training I felt ready to pitch.
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Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.
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Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play.
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That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.
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Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
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You want to help him.
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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.
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As to the pretty girls who went past, from the day on which I had first known that their cheeks could be kissed, I had become curious about their souls. And the Universe had appeared to me more interesting.
