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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why. ↗


— Warren Weaver


#analyze #answers #attempts #bad #behave

Dad, will they ever come back?" "No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not them. But yes, other people like them. Not in a carnival. God knows what shape they'll come in next. But sunrise, noon, or at the latest, sunset tomorrow they'll show. They're on the road." "Oh, no," said Will. "Oh, yes, said Dad. "We got to watch out the rest of our lives. The fight's just begun." They moved around the carousel slowly. "What will they look like? How will we know them?" "Why," said Dad, quietly, "maybe they're already here." Both boys looked around swiftly. But there was only the meadow, the machine, and themselves. Will looked at Jim, at his father, and then down at his own body and hands. He glanced up at Dad. Dad nodded, once, gravely, and then nodded at the carousel, and stepped up on it, and touched a brass pole. Will stepped up beside him. Jim stepped up beside Will. Jim stroked a horse's mane. Will patted a horse's shoulders. The great machine softly tilted in the tides of night. Just three times around, ahead, thought Will. Hey. Just four times around, ahead, thought Jim. Boy. Just ten times around, back, thought Charles Halloway. Lord. Each read the thoughts in the other's eyes. How easy, thought Will. Just this once, thought Jim. But then, thought Charles Halloway, once you start, you'd always come back. One more ride and one more ride. And, after awhile, you'd offer rides to friends, and more friends until finally... The thought hit them all in the same quiet moment. ...finally you wind up owner of the carousel, keeper of the freaks... proprietor for some small part of eternity of the traveling dark carnival shows.... Maybe, said their eyes, they're already here. ↗


— Ray Bradbury


#dark #evil #fear #internal-conflict #life

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't. ↗


— Steve Maraboli


#inspirational #life #opportunity-temptation #temptation #inspirational

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal. ↗


— Al Goldstein


#cause #effect #find #goal #man

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. ↗


— Andy Goldsworthy


#art #attempt #beyond #built #city

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?" ↗


— Joseph Heller


#catch-22 #done #good #i #read

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent. ↗


— Ed Helms


#because #cappella #converse #cool #daring

Why resist temptation? There will always be more. ↗


— Don Herold


#more #resist #temptation #why #will

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth. ↗


— Harry Houdini


#bite #good #iron #off #performer

President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame. ↗


— Glenn Hubbard


#attempt #avoided #basically #been #crisis






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