It takes so many years to learn that one is dead. - T. S. Eliot

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There are plenty of Christian writers out there telling people what they should think. I'm happy to be one of the Christian writers simply telling people to think. For themselves.

T. S. Eliot

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Possibly, Risk

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

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Kenneth E. Boulding

Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field.

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David Mccandless

If you want to visualize something in its fullness you have to look at every perspective and every angle, and that means - sometimes uncomfortably - looking at things you don't want to look at.

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Rumi

If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

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Stephen M. Miller