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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.


Ethel Percy Andrus

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WALKER PERCY The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. ...
WALKER PERCY Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
WALKER PERCY If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.
PERCY SUTTON To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
WALKER PERCY He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight. - Thomas Percy...
THOMAS PERCY