A Phoenix Must Burn to Rise Again Parable of the Sower
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"All that you touch, You lot Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The simply lasting truth Is Change. God"
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"I'm all the same learning how dogged people can be in deprival, even when their freedom or their lives are at stake."
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― Parable of the Sower
"In order to ascent From its ain ashes A phoenix First Must Fire."
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― Parable of the Sower
"But if everyone could feel everyone else's pain, who would torture? Who would cause anyone unnecessary pain?"
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― Parable of the Sower
" Why is the universe? To shape God. Why is God? To shape the universe."
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― Parable of the Sower
"All struggles Are essentially power struggles. Who volition rule, Who will lead, Who will define, refine, confine, design, Who will dominate. All struggles Are substantially power struggles, And almost are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together."
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― Parable of the Sower
"God is neither good nor evil, neither loving nor hating. God is Power. God is Change. We must find the residue of what we demand within ourselves, in one another, in our Destiny."
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― Parable of the Sower
"The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn't ever condom, but it's ofttimes necessary."
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― Parable of the Sower
"Is whatever of this existent? Dangerous question. Sometimes I don't know the answer. I doubt myself. I dubiety what I think I know. I try to forget well-nigh information technology. After all, if it'due south real, why doesn't anyone else know about it. Every ane knows that alter is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism's insistence that zippo is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes ("To everything at that place is a flavor"), modify is office of life, of existence, of the mutual wisdom. Only I don't believe we're dealing with all that that ways. Nosotros haven't even begun to bargain with it."
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― Parable of the Sower
"People are setting fires to get rid of whomever they dislike from personal enemies to anyone who looks or sounds foreign or racially unlike. People are setting fires because they're frustrated, angry, hopeless. They take no power to ameliorate their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that y'all take ability is to use it."
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― Parable of the Sower
"I have watched educational activity become more a privilege of the rich than the basic necessity that information technology must be if civilized guild is to survive. I have watched as convenience, turn a profit, and inertia excused greater and more unsafe environmental deposition. I have watched poverty, hunger, and disease become inevitable for more and more people. Overall, the Pox has had the effect of an installment-plan World State of war III. In fact, there were several small, bloody shooting wars going on around the world during the Pox. These were stupid diplomacy—wastes of life and treasure. They were fought, ostensibly, to defend against vicious foreign enemies. All too often, they were really fought considering inadequate leaders did not know what else to do. Such leaders knew that they could depend on fear, suspicion, hatred, need, and greed to arouse patriotic support for state of war."
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― Parable of the Sower
"aught is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence"
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― Parable of the Sower
"Stumbling beyond the truth isn't the same every bit making things upwards."
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― Parable of the Sower
"It scares me how many things I've got to learn. How will I learn them?"
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― Parable of the Sower
"A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fearfulness, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God'due south prey."
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― Parable of the Sower
"AT To the lowest degree THREE YEARS agone, my fathers God stopped being my God. His church stopped being my church. And yet, today, because I'k a coward, I let myself be initiated into that church. I let my father baptize me in all three names of that God who isn't mine any more than. My God has another proper noun."
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― Parable of the Sower
"I'one thousand sorry that astronaut will be brought back from her own chosen heaven."
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― Parable of the Sower
"Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments—the ones abolishing slavery and guaranteeing citizenship rights—however exist, merely they've been so weakened past custom, by Congress and the various state legislatures, and by recent Supreme Courtroom decisions that they don't much matter."
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― Parable of the Sower
"Praying makes people experience improve even when there's no action they can take," he said. "I used to recollect that was all God was skillful for—to help people similar my mother stand up what they had to stand."
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"From what I've read," I said to him, "the world goes crazy every 3 or iv decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again."
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"Things are changing now, too. Our adults oasis't been wiped out by a plague so they're still anchored in the past, waiting for the good old days to come back. Simply things have changed a lot, and they'll modify more. Things are always irresolute. This is just 1 of the big jumps instead of the little step-by-step changes that are easier to have. People accept changed the climate of the world. Now they're waiting for the old days to come up back."
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― Parable of the Sower
"Most people have given upwards on politicians. Later all, politicians have been promising to return united states of america to the glory, wealth, and society of the twentieth century ever since I can recollect."
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― Parable of the Sower
"only it took a plague to make some of the people realize that things could change."
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― Parable of the Sower
"Why is the universe? To shape God. Why is God? To shape the universe. I can't get rid of it. I've tried to alter it or dump it, only I can't. I cannot. It feels like the truest thing I've ever written. It's equally mysterious and as obvious as any other explanation of God or the universe that I've ever read, except that to me the others feel inadequate, at best."
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― Parable of the Sower
"We collected all the basic we could observe, and yesterday, Natividad wrapped them in a shawl that she had knitted years agone. It was the nigh beautiful matter she owned.
"A matter like that should serve the living," Bankole said when she offered it.
"You are living," Natividad said. "I like you lot. I wish I could accept met your sister."
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"God is Infinite, Irresistible, Inexorable, Indifferent. God is Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay— God is Change. Beware: God exists to shape And to be shaped."
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"Sometimes people say I look grim or angry. Improve to take them think that than know the truth. Amend to take them think anything than know just how easy it is to hurt me."
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― Parable of the Sower
"All that you bear upon, Yous Change. All that you Modify, Changes you. The simply lasting truth Is Change."
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"No. No, Donner's merely a kind of human banister." "A what?" "I mean he's like … like a symbol of the past for u.s.a. to hold on to as nosotros're pushed into the future. He's nothing. No substance. But having him there, the latest in a two-and-a-half-century-long line of American Presidents make people experience that the land, the civilisation that they grew up with is still here—that we'll get through these bad times and back to normal."
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― Parable of the Sower
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