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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. ↗

— Graham Greene

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We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings? ↗

— Brian Greene

#brains #cats #certainly #deepest #further

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ↗

— Graham Greene

#childhood #door #future #lets #moment

I've had a great deal of experience with adolescents over the centuries, and I've discovered that as a group these awkward half children take themselves far too seriously. Moreover, appearance is everything for the adolescent. I suppose it's a form of play-acting. The adolescent knows that the child is lurking under the surface, but he'd sooner die than let it out, and I was no different. I was so intent on being "grown-up" that I simply couldn't relax and enjoy life. Most people go through this stage and outgrow it. Many, however, do not. The pose becomes more important than reality, and these poor creatures become hollow people, forever striving to fit themselves into an impossible mold. ↗

— David Eddings

#life #experience

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. ↗

— Graham Greene

#human #human relationships #kindness #lies #relationships

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. ↗

— Graham Greene

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It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#any #challenge #day #different #every

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. ↗

— Graham Greene

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If it matters, it produces controversy. ↗

— Jay Greene

#matters #produces

Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts of their own, and soon or late they disappear. The only mystery is that we expect it to be otherwise. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#experience