Samanthas Bartlesville Quotes & Sayings

We romanticize the past with an illusion that we'd know how we'd fit. — Robin Weigert

My dear brothers and sisters,* how can you claim to have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people over others? 2 For example, suppose someone comes into your meeting* dressed in fancy clothes and expensive jewelry, and another comes in who is poor and dressed in dirty clothes. 3 If you give special attention and a good seat to the rich person, but you say to the poor one, "You can stand over there, or else sit on the floor" - well, 4 doesn't this discrimination show that your judgments are guided by evil motives? — Anonymous

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all. — Eli Pariser

Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I, for my share, cannot understand," continued she, "how men have made themselves believe that God speaks to us through books and histories. The man to whom the universe does not reveal directly what relation it has to him, whose heart does not tell him what he owes to himself and others, that man will scarcely learn it out of books, which generally do little more than give our errors names. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of history and literature. He organized amateur plays for them, encourage pursuit of special interests, prompted them to write essays on their readings, and urge them to recite poetry. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Magic is not, and never has been a substitute for science, but is rather a constructive activity with a specific social function, and one that is still operative. [ ... ] The aim of magical objects and magical rites is to arouse emotion in the group and to make such aroused emotions effective agents. — Herbert Read