Phoenix

by Dale J. Sprague

Reveries


1.2004   "spirits affecting"

 "I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me."
- R. Feynman

"Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."
- John Keats

 "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
 - E. Hemmingway

 "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
  - Carl Sagan

 "Remember...life is as you conceive of it."
 - Joseph Majerus

 "After seventy, it's all spirit"
-Anna Majerus

 "Only a woman can make a man."
-William Hawkins

 "Pursue work you enjoy."
-Gerald W. Sprague

 "If you have an ability, you owe it to yourself to pursue it."
-Claire, an Engineer

 "There is no need for anyone to join the Christian church in order to be affiliated with Christ."
-A. Bailey, from 'The Externalization of Hierarchy"

 "Look far ahead and see what is approaching you."
-Ruth M. Sprague

 "It is better to see the truth, no matter how horrible."
-A. Einstein

 "Chance favors only the prepared mind."
-L. Pasteur

 "The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to break."
-Samuel Johnson

  "Ah, but a man's (one's) reach should exceed his (one's) grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
-Robert Browning


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