I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.
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J. A. de Jean André Luc
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I am not fond of Money but what i have to do in order to get it, i am fond of what i get in exchange for it’s worth rather than money itself.
I am not fond of Money but what i have to do in order to get it, i am fond of what i get in exchange for it’s worth rather than money itself.
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Sachin Kumar Puli
The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the
The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of poetry and in the self-created world of dreams hopes to banish the dark power of reality. The gods enjoy eternal youth, and the search for the means of securing it was one of the occupations of the heroes of mythology and the sages, as it was of real adventurers in the middle ages and more recent times. . . . But the fountain of youth has not been found, and can not be found if it is sought in any particular spot on the earth. Yet it is no fable, no dream-picture; it requires no adept to find it: it streams forth inexhaustible in all living nature.
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Ferdinand Cohn
It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have
It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard. These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences.
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Mary Shelley,
Frankenstein
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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Madeleine Albright,
Madam Secretary: A Memoir
For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery that most unstable existential moment the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms
For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery that most unstable existential moment the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real.
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Richard Rhodes,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The body of the Word, then, being a real human body, in spite of its having been uniquely formed from a virgin, was of itself mortal and, like
The body of the Word, then, being a real human body, in spite of its having been uniquely formed from a virgin, was of itself mortal and, like other bodies, liable to death. But the indwelling of the Word loosed it from this natural liability, so that corruption could not touch it. Thus is happened that two opposite marvels took place at once: the death of all was consummated in the Lord’s body; yet, because the Word was in it, death and corruption were in the same act utterly abolished.
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Athanasius of Alexandria,
On the Incarnation
People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.
People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.
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Heraclitus
Nothing is Impossible. The word “impossible” itself reads “I’m Possible”! – Mayowa Ajisafe, Eagle Success
Nothing is Impossible. The word ‘impossible’ itself reads ‘I’m Possible’!
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Mayowa Ajisafe,
Eagle Success
Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself. – Denis de Rougemont,
Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
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Denis de Rougemont,
Love in the Western World
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