The Quoted Material

The Soil:

"I do adore music ... it just seems to say all the things one can't say oneself."
Virginia Woolf - The Voyage Out

The enchanted world arising out of the dim mists of the past, into which he just stepped, quivered-and disappeared.
Ivan Turgenev - Father's and Sons
Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago. By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men are interconnected. In an unbreakable web. What one man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant vibrates through the strands and effects every man.
Philip Jose Farmer - Riders of the Purple Sage

Mr. Scarecrow:

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me form the nonsense of surviving mortals.
-Samuel Davies

Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit, Gravity is easy peasy by comparison.
Terry Pratchett: Johnny and the Dead.

REMEMBER TO SMILE A LOT JOHN RENFREW
thought moodily. People seemed to like that. They
never wondered why you kept on smiling, no matter
what was said. It was a kind of general sign of good
will, he supposed, one of the tricks he could never
master.
Gregory Benford: Time Scape

Pulling Up Weeds:
“What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.”The Lady's Not for Burning

every end is a beginning; there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon; and under every deep a lower deep opens.
-Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Killing people like children burn ants under a magnifying glass. -Anonymously Paraphrasing Brandon Manning Comments about the Wiki Links.

My life is the text in which I must find the revelation of the sacred.
– Sam Keen
Hymns to an Unknown God

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