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Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

“I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.”

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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose works and ideas had a profound influence on the world. He was a renowned painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist, musician, and engineer. more

“What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by a purposeful, benign Creator is one thing. To believe that this Creator took on human vesture, accepted death and mortality, was tempted, betrayed, broken, and all for love of us, defies reason. It is so wild that it terrifies some Christians who try to dogmatize their fear by lashing out at other Christians, because tidy Christianity with all answers given is easier than one which reaches out to the wild wonder of God's love, a love we don't even have to earn.”

“I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.”

Forget Laughter Never Forget Joyful

Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.”

Stuff Walks Poet Wall Periods Late Deserve Red Chinese Compare Prose Emeralds

Author:Brian Aldiss

“We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.”

Knows Mind Age Understanding Black White Century Red Coffee Bread Target Apocalypse Abyss Spiders Underworld Daily Bread Conveying Splinters Our Daily Bread

Author:Brian Aldiss

“Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine...We work in the Dark, to serve the Light.”

Light Dark Shay

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Own nothing, control everything.”

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.”

Knows Turns Language Talent Depth Simplicity Surface Phrases Twins Mundane Luminous Embedded Translators Sensing Reverberation

Author:Ali Smith

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