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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring,
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
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Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
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Wordsmith
Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (1935- )
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A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on June 29, 2010
Contribution #4209
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Even in abundance, human beings create willful scarcity; even in life, human beings create mindless death.
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personal reflection
Contribution #4146
To profess to be doing God's will is a form of megalomania.
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Joseph Prescott, aphorist (1913-2001)
Contribution #4101
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
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Les Noyers de l’Altenburg
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Contribution #4096
Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.
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Wordsmith
Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
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A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on May 26, 2010
Contribution #4059
That's a fine line that's a big deal.
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Personal Communication
Contribution #4045
Our choicest plans
have fallen through,
our airiest castles
tumbled over,
because of lines
we neatly drew
and later neatly
stumbled over.
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Wordsmith
Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
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A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on May 19, 2010
Contribution #4042
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Wordsmith
Immanuel Kant, philosopher (1724-1804)
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A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on May 14, 2010
Contribution #4040
One ounce of patience is greater than a ton of pure gold; because patience is divine+
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
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Wordsmith
George Marshall, US Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Nobel laureate (1880-1959)
"
A.Word.A.Day"
Viewed on May 11, 2010
Contribution #4027
A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.
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The True Believer
Page 79
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Contribution #3967
What Stresemann said of the Germans is true of the frustrated in general: '[They] pray not only for [their] daily bread, but also for [their] daily illusion'. The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.
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The True Believer
Page 23
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Contribution #3951
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
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Wordsmith
Stephen Roberts, database architect (b. 1967)
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A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on April 30, 2010
Contribution #3946
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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Anais Nin, writer (1903-1977)
"
A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on April 26, 2010
Contribution #3941
One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.
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Contribution #3939
The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure.
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The National Catholic Reporter
Divided loyalties: an incredible situation
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Contribution #3904
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.
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The National Catholic Reporter
Divided Loyalties: An Incredible Situation
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Contribution #3902
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilber K Chesterton
Contribution #3871
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill quote
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Contribution #3860
Love is the Root of Divine Providence. All virtue is the fruit of Love. Through Love we receive every good and perfect gift. God is Love.
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Integrated Gospel Perceptions
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Contribution #3847
Let us choose to expand our minds and embrace the grace of life.
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Integrated Gospel Perceptions
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Contribution #3839
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass
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Contribution #3838
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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Abraham Lincoln
Contribution #3817
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
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For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
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Holy Bible
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Contribution #3796
We unite our humility With our Creator’s ability When we embrace His divine grace
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Integrated Gospel Perceptions
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Contribution #3795
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
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Contribution #3772
We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgment, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
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Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
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Contribution #3769
I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.
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Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1967
Contribution #3750
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. Martin Luther King Jr., 'Strength to Love,' 1963
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The Strength Of Love
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Contribution #3742
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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Every one is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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Parenting: Affection without sentiment, authority without cruelty, discipline without aggression, humor without ridicule, sacrifice without obligation, companionship without possessiveness.
Forgiveness demands not Justice and Justice demands not Forgiveness.
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Contribution #3624
This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it.
If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and spirituality will be "Did you love with abandonment?"
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
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It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
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There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.
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The Reenchantment of Everyday Life
Published in U.S.A.
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Contribution #3494
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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You educate to some extent by what you say, more by what you do, and still more by who you are, but most of all by the things you love.
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He who angers you conquers you.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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Contribution #3437
We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate them.
It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.
I gravitate toward gravitas.
“Women are the mothers of nations; by empowering them, we empower the next generation.”
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personal correspondence
Contribution #3354
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.
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The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire? There is nothing spontaneous, nothing natural about human desires. Our desires are artificial. We have to be taught to desire. Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire. It tells you how to desire.
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
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mailer from "The Skeptical Inquirer"
Contribution #2734
Examine the contents, not the bottle.
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Talmud
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Contribution #2628
If one man says to thee, ''Thou art a donkey',' pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
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Talmud
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Contribution #2627
If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools.
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Talmud
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Contribution #2621
You can see deeply into a tangled forest if you peer closely.
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
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The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been satisfied. He no longer cares for the exceptional, the monstrous, the marvelous and deformed. He looks through and beyond the gilding, the glitter and gloss, not only of things, but of conduct, of manners, theories, religions and philosophies. He sees clearer. The light no longer shines in his eyes.
Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.
You see but you do not observe.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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Contribution #2115
We seek guidance from an inspired place within, but as we listen for that still, small voice we also become hostage to our phobias and neuroses, which have learned to impersonate inspiration.
To be able to distinguish our highest callings from base distortions of our personality is an elevated form of self-knowledge. Don’t imagine you can perform this feat of wisdom through thinking. When the gift of discrimination arrives, it is likely to operate beneath the level of conscious analysis. The best you can do is to observe your own process, to refrain from taking sides in the debate, to watch yourself deciding.
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Josh Mitteldorf
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Daily Inspiration - October 12, 2008"
http://daily-inspiration.org/
Viewed on October 17, 2008
Contribution #2106
My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.
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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
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Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.
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As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Strength and Love
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Contribution #1760
All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,--real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
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Tao Te Ching
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Version or Translation - translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English
Published by Vintage Books (Random House)
Published in New York, N. Y., United States
Published in 1997 (this edition)
http://this text is widely available in various translations
Contribution #1269
There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
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“Namaste” translated, “The Light of God in Me recognizes and honors The Light of God in You and in that recognition is our Oneness.”
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
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Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!
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Discernment is about learning to separate truth from lies, illusion from reality, fantasy from facts. It is about learning the difference between: emotional truth and Spiritual Truth; emotional impulse and intuitive guidance; being victimized and feeling like a victim. It is about recognizing the difference between a person that can be trusted and one who will betray us - between a soul connection and a emotional attraction to a person who is emotionally unavailable.
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Robert Burney
http://www.joy2meu.com
Viewed on March 1, 2008
Contribution #29
What does discernment look like in a person?
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