Top 14 Sara Maitland Quotes
#1. Wilberforce did not believe in either evolution or extinction.
Owen believed in extinction but not evolution.
Lamarck believed in evolution but not extinction.
Darwin believed in evolution and extinction.
All four of them believed in God.
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#2. You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.
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#3. Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.
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#4. Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.
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#5. there is an interior dimension to silence, a sort of stillness of heart and mind which is not a void but a rich space.
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#6. Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.
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#7. You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms.
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#8. Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this with vaginal jelly, and I have to say when I first heard this that I was rather shocked, because he was quite gentlemanly.
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#9. Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.
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#10. We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.
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#11. Art is an artificial organization of experience ...
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#12. If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply "alone."
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#13. My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.
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#14. It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.
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