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We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity — Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom. — Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and pre — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

$It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and as if the only appearances of which we can be aware are cracks and planes of fracture in that transp — Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature$

If I die, don't take this too hard," she counseled them, "death is only part of things bigger than we can imagine. Our b — Louise Erdrich, The Master Butchers Singing Club

Isn't it ironic that being immortal would reveal the fool's errand of immortality? — RyLee Harrison

Only by intertwining these two perspectives, the biological and the phenomenological, can we gain a fuller understanding — Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words. — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing. — Frank Herbert, Dune

Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity an — Meir Soloveichik

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity. — Michael Porter

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