#stand

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#fly #found #future #had #i

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#including #nobody #those #understands #who

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#authority #automatically #beliefs #children #evidence

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#around #big #big enough #brain #come

The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age. ↗

— Davidson Black

#beginning #being #dating #erect #ice

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#good #own #raised #someone #standards

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#american writers #dangerous #live #margins #more

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#church #conducted #event #i #moon

I don't have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn't understand that we need to balance the budget should not be president of the United States. ↗

— Jim DeMint

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