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“Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.”

Writing Secret Cutting Progress Rocks Mountain Picks Flow Highways Chipping Away Slow Progress

Author:Piers Anthony

“The mind God is looking for in man is a doubting, questioning mind, not a dogmatic mind; dogmatic reasoning is wrong reasoning. Dogmatic reason ties a huge rock to a man's foot and stops him forever from advancing.”

Men Mind Reason God Science Forever Doubt Progress Feet Rocks Huge Ties Reasoning Questioning Advancing Dogmatic

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.”

Years Firsts Littles Earth Three Records Progress Rocks Creatures Majors Years Ago Plant Billions Invisible Breakthrough Bacteria

Author:Robert Jastrow

“We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.”

Ifs Stills Desire Progress Rocks Stillness Living Things Modernity Migration

Book:Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

Source: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

“Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava floes destroying entire villages, etc., and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.”

“Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why investigate when you know? Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bullying the enlightened Present. The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle... the entire structure.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.”

Soul Spirit Fall Evil Water Cases Progress Rocks Angel Noise Disturbance Sponges Drop Of Water Evil Spirits

Book:The Text of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius

Source: The Text of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius

“Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington.”

Littles Progress Rocks Affected Investigation Little Rock

Author:Gwen Ifill