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• The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suicide, Spiritual, Beloved Community

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.75, Beacon Press

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• When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities. Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.

  Pope Francis

  Running, Theory Of Evolution, Risk

  "Pope Francis: 'Evolution ... is not inconsistent with the notion of creation'". www.ncronline.org. October 27, 2014.

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• Don't ever be afraid of giving. Give. Give of your time, your forgiveness, your understanding, your love. Give of your money. Give to the creation, and you'll be given by the Creator. Be generous, and the Most Generous will be generous with you.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Giving, Understanding, Given

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• In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Real, Criticism

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Rebel”, p.213, Penguin UK

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• In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

  Bruce Lee

  Clay, Building, Obstruction

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• Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

  Mother Teresa

  Silence, Heaven, Spread

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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• Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

  Alice Walker

  Bliss, Periods

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• Whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in, forms a new pattern of though within its creative mold, as whatever thought is held in the mind tends to take outward form in new creations.

  Ernest Holmes

  Believe, Creative, Mind

  Ernest Holmes (1998). “The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition”, p.494, Penguin

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• Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of things, and open our hearts to that most impractical of hopes in which all creation speaks as one.

  Matthew Scully

  Heart, Humility, Animal

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.442, Macmillan

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• True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Creative, Miracle

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• Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Winning, Men, Dragons

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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• I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.

  Morris West

  Nature, Thinking, Bird

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• Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

  George Gershwin

  Ideas, Use, Originality

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• You are living in a dream of your own creation. Let it be the dream of a lifetime, for that is exactly what it is.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Dream, Lifetime

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 29, 2017

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• Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, Trying, Debt

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• Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth.

  Julian Simon

  Hands, Understanding, Wealth

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• Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.

  N. T. Wright

  Religious, Jesus, Way

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• When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York.

  Thomas Sowell

  New York, Gun, Thinking

  "Random Thoughts". capitalismmagazine.com. August 25, 2008.

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• We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature.

  John Green

  Lying, Book, Soul

  "John Green: why I'll never self-publish" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2013.

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• Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form, all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, Sound, World

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Aug 08, 2013

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• The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

  Plato

  Art, Mean, Men

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• Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Thinking, Musical, Mind

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• We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly. In ancient Greek the word “chaos” means “gaping void” or “yawning emptiness.” The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Mean, Yawning

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• God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.

  Thomas Keating

  Supporter

  Thomas Keating (2012). “Invitation to Love 20th Anniversary Edition: The Way of Christian Contemplation”, p.57, A&C Black

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• We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Falling In Love, Passion, Justice

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