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This was just sent by Fr. David - the rector of the church Nathan and I attend. I quite liked it.
quote: When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Recife, Brazil
What thought-inspiring, or humorous, or touching quotes have YOU stumbled upon lately?
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The "magic of it!" I definitely remember that being a part of that quote too. Now, if only someone could tell me who said it. I can't seem to find it on wikipedia's sister site http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page.Posts: 494 | Registered: Mar 2000
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I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is." -Derek Zoolander
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A classic: "Speak truth to power." (original reference lost in time, I think)
For the medically-minded: "I never in my life worked for anyone but a patient." (Paul B. Magnuson, Ring the Night Bell)
A soon-to-be-classic: "And you did it because it was the right thing to do. Nobody asks us to go out and fight, put our lives on the line. We do it because we can, 'cause we know how. We do it whether people remember us or not, in spite of the fact that there's no shiny reward at the end of the day, other than the work itself." (Angel, season five)
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. --Leon Trotsky
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āRecall the face of the poorest and most helpless person you have seen and ask yourself if the next step you contemplate is going to be of any use to that person. ā ā¼M.K.Gandhi
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quote: Both science and art ultimately rest on the same foundation: the ability to draw patterns out of chaos. It's just that when you do science, you observe the chaos; when you do art, you get to define it.
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"I would rather be lucky than good" Ozzie Guillen on whether AJ Pierzynski was out in game 2 of the ALCS.
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Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards, and in high heels. -Faith Whittlesey
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"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking ." JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
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"The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness." ERIC SEVAREID
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quote: Originally posted by The Rabbit: "What does it do?" "Do? It doesn't DO anything - that's the beauty of it!"
And no one seems to know the origin, although everyone seems to have heard it.
It's from Willy Wonka. I don't remember exactly what Gene Wilder was referring to, but I know it's from Willy Wonka. Maybe I'll rent the movie and find out.
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quote: You can't rule out the impossible, because you never know which of your assumptions about what was possible might turn out, in the real universe, to be false
quote: Look with hope to your allies, rather than with hatred to your enemies.
quote: "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
John Adams
quote: "Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm -- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."
T.S. Elliot
quote: "As God Calculates, so the world is made." - Leibniz
quote: "Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you."
Ben Franklin
quote: "I think the Union army had something to do with it." -- Gen. George Pickett, years afterward, on why his charge at Gettysburg failed.
quote: Originally posted by The Rabbit: "What does it do?" "Do? It doesn't DO anything - that's the beauty of it!"
And no one seems to know the origin, although everyone seems to have heard it.
It's from Willy Wonka. I don't remember exactly what Gene Wilder was referring to, but I know it's from Willy Wonka. Maybe I'll rent the movie and find out.
quote:Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me.
"If it seems to anyone that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them, in such a way that by that understanding he does not build up that double love of God and of neighbor, he has not yet understood them." St. Augustine
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"Too many people enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - JFK
"The better part of one's life consists of its friendships." - Abe Lincoln
"we don't have alot of time on this earth, we weren't meant to spend it this way, human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements." - Peter man
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