Below is a paste of a new page at SPR. It is anomalous for several reasons, primary of which is that I wrote nothing of it. Across the past year, many of you have seen its contents at TCB, here and there now collected into one webpage for my own reference (and for that reason perpetually “under construction”).
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SPR Favorite Quotes
Collected here as I happen upon them.
The spontaneous generation of life on the earth would have been as likely as the assemblage of a 727 aircraft by a tornado passing through a junkyard.
—Sir Fred Hoyle, Astronomer
When nothing more needs to be said, the smoke of ideas clears, the mountain is seen.
—Thomas Merton
If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go you'll find you've gone.
—Burt Monro
Love God and live as you will.
—Saint Augustine
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
—Mark Twain
Stuff is getting better every day.
—Kevin Costner as the Postman quoting President Richard Starkey.
There is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain. ...Whenever I come to the fountain to drink I find the living water itself thirsty; And it drinks me while I drink it.
—Kahlil Gibran as The Prophet
It may be that in years to come men will scarce believe that one such as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.
—Albert Einstein at the death of Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi)
What is, is right.
—Alexander Pope
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love.
—Thomas Merton
© 3 September 2007, Sugarpie Rabbit
In the Face of Love: The Book of the Beloved
SPR © 14 February 2007, Sugarpie Rabbit
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