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Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. ”
We had never before seen a place where European influence had not contributed to smooth and soften the rough features of uncultivated nature. The prospect of Rangoon, as we approached, was quite disheartening. ”
Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God. ”
The land of Beulah lies beyond the valley of the shadow of death. Many Christians spend all their days in a continual bustle, doing good. They are too busy to find either the valley or Beulah. Virtues they have, but are full of the life and attractions of nature, and unacquainted with the paths of mortification and death. ”
We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature. ”
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint. ”
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. ”
Pakistan doesn't value its artistes. I will get trolled for what I have said, but that is the reality. It is unfortunate. ”
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. ”
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. ”