Quotemeal: Dec. 29th, 2025

Monday, December 29, 2025

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."
— Gaston Bachelard

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"Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God."
— Bonaventure —
"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."
— Henry Ward Beecher —
"The human race is divided into two classes — those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, "Why wasn't it done the other way?""
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. —
"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 Gaston Bachelard — "One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

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