If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
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If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.
If you see harassment happening, speak up. Being harassed is terrible; having bystanders pretend they don't notice is infinitely worse.
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
I've met many Holocaust survivors who find the era infinitely compelling because they have this deep hunger to understand how it all could possibly have happened.
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.
If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?
I think in YA there's sometimes a temptation to create heroines who are infinitely resilient and wise and confident because those are the behaviors we want to see teens embrace and maybe we want to see those things in ourselves.
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.
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