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“Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon”
“Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.”
“There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple sounds that get inside the head, the heart is convinced that it is existing in rhythm to a kind of ...”
“Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into no...”
“I guess she was a life line Sewing our family fabric togetherFrom me to dad to herGave me a sense of continuity Especially when my daughter was bornAs she was slipping away”
“There is in certain ancient things a traceOf some dim essence --More than form or weight;A tenuous aether, indeterminate,Yet linked with all the laws of time and space.A faint, veiled sign of conti...”
“He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.”
“The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis”
“History has always been violent, unstoppable and bound to happen; either with or without you. Acknowledge it.”
“She wants to have her notebooks so that the flimsy framework of events, as she has constructed them in her school notebook, will be provided with walls and become a house she can live in. Because i...”
“A cardinal tenet of conservatism is that social inertia is and ought to be strong. It discourages and, if necessary, defeats the political grandiosity of those who would attempt to engineer the f...”
“Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility.”
“America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin”
“Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure.”
“He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.”
“(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent...”
“I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom.”
“Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. From the book jacket”
“If I die, don't take this too hard," she counseled them, "death is only part of things bigger than we can imagine. Our brains are just starting the greatness, to learn how to do things like flying....”
“Isn't it ironic that being immortal would reveal the fool's errand of immortality?”
