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mundane patterns Quotes

Seven of the best book quotes about mundane patterns
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“Inside the house, my parents did whatever banal, messy things people in the human world usually did, some of it loudly. But I could easily lose myself in the microworld of the pool.”
Jeff VanderMeer
author
Annihilation
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Biologist
character
estrangement
scientists
mundane patterns
withdraw
disassociation
concepts
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“We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians, who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word and refused to shape their witness according to the mundane patterns of the world.”
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“Like Martha I have always been agitated and troubled by the cares of the day but my mother had a serene and loving heart. She was like Mary and had chosen the “good” part.”
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“But we did not relinquish out worldly aims, because we could not see the light of any truth that we might grasp in place of them.”
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“The more unscrupulous I was, the greater my reputation was likely to be, for men are so blind that they even take pride in their blindness.”
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“Grief eats away its heart for the loss of things which it took pleasure in desiring, because it wants to be like you, from whom nothing can be taken away.”
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“Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!”

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