_Quotes

Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute. The virtues and powers to which men may be trained, by early education and constant discipline, are truly sublime and astonishing. Newton and Locke are examples of the deep sagacity which may be acquired by long habits of thinking and study. - John Adams, in a letter to Abigail Adams (29 October 1775), published Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, Vol. 1 (1841), ed. Charles Francis Adams, p. 72. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Education

There are three kinds of objects of belief. Some are always believed and never understood, such as all history, which runs through temporal and human acts. Others must be understood to be believed, such as all human reasonings. Thirdly, there are those which must be believed first and understood later, like divine matters. - Augustine of Hippo, Eighty-Three Different Questions (388–395/7), 48 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Belief

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. - Genesis 6:9. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blood

The ultimate meaning of desire is death. - Rene Girard, in Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque [Deceit, Desire and the Novel : Self and Other in Literary Structure] (1961), p. 290 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Desire

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ~ Ellen Glasgow ~

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? - Woody Allen

What women really want is to be in charge of her own life. - King Arthur