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The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world. — Jeanette Winterson
I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God,… — Anne Rice
The moon is whole all the time, but we canâ€™t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest… — Alice Sebold
I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think… — Marilynne Robinson
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property;… — Emma Goldman
Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never… — Andrea Camilleri
Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything. — Nick Harkaway
To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we… — Derrick Jensen
Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal… — Terry Tempest Williams
She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates… — Paulo Coelho
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek… — Barack Obama
If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as… — Eckhart Tolle
At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for… — C.S. Lewis
Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. — Nhat Hanh
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were. — Kay Redfield Jamison
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. — Isaac Asimov
Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our… — Gary Zukav
Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger… — William P. Young

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