“Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.”
Mitch Albom (1958) American author
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
“It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.”
— Roald Dahl, book The Witches
Source: The Witches
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Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath
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Everything Is Under Control (1998)
Context: The A∴A∴ must rank as the most secretive secret society in the world. Perhaps nobody, not even the few writers who have discussed it, knows for sure when the A∴A∴ began, which group claiming to be the A∴A∴ at present is the real A∴A∴, or even what the symbols A∴A∴ stand for — although many claim to know these things of course. … Occult historians generally agree that V. V. V. V. V. signified Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici ("By the force of truth I have conquered the universe"), one of the eleven magic mottoes of Aleister Crowley.
“Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.”
Flora Thompson (1876–1947) English author and poet
February Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
The Peverel Papers
“Impossible gadgets are always the most valuable.”
Charles Sheffield book Divergence
Source: The Heritage Universe, Divergence (1991), Chapter 16 (p. 433)
Steven Pinker book The Blank Slate
The First Law. All human behavioral traits are heritable.
The Second Law. The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of genes.
The Third Law. A substantial portion of the variation in complex human behavioral traits is not accounted for by the effects of genes or families.
Kindle locations 8005, 8010.
The Blank Slate (2002)
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Context: "Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense
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The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)