Quotemeal: Jan. 3rd, 1956

Tuesday, January 3, 1956

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."
— Goethe

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"We don't seem to want to worship a God who's too big, too authoritative. We seem more comfortable with a deity who's more manageable."
— Mark Finley —
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
— Leo Tolstoy —
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— Calvin Miller —
"There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time."
— John D. Barrow —

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Illustration of Goethe — "Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

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