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Trying to have a productive discussion about a complex social issue on Facebook is like trying to build a bridge by throwing rocks into a well.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussPosted: 26 Nov 2013 at 8:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you’re a teenager and you’re in love, it’s obvious to everyone but you and the person you’re in love with.
Speaker: John ScalziSource: Old Man's WarPosted: 15 Nov 2013 at 9:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I’ve learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best. And, by striving for happiness, you will arrive at happiness.
Speaker: Naoki HigashidaSource: the Reason I JumpPosted: 15 Nov 2013 at 9:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I try not to think with my gut. If I’m serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.
Speaker: Carl SaganSource: the God DelusionPosted: 20 Oct 2013 at 10:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am satisfied (and sufficiently occupied) with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.
Speaker: Thomas JeffersonSource: the God DelusionPosted: 20 Oct 2013 at 10:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your currently reality, whatever they might be.
Speaker: James StockdaleSource: Good to GreatPosted: 29 Sep 2013 at 2:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Resiliency, not perfection. Resiliency is the signature of greatness.
Speaker: Jim CollinsSource: Good to GreatPosted: 29 Sep 2013 at 2:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Managing your problems can only make you good [not great].
Speaker: Jim CollinsSource: Good to GreatPosted: 29 Sep 2013 at 2:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one’s country; is it hate of one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That’s a good thing, but one mustn’t make a virtue of it, or a profession… Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.
Speaker: Ursula K. Le GuinSource: the Left Hand of DarknessPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 7:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This is the shape of our world: tit for tat until we’re all dead and cheshires lap at our blood
Speaker: Paolo BacigalupiSource: the Windup GirlPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 7:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Anyone can say, “I don’t like it.” I want to hear you say, “here’s how we can make it better.”
Speaker: Walt DisneySource: How to Be Like WaltPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 7:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There’s enough ugliness and cynicism in the world without me adding to it.
Speaker: Walt DisneySource: How to Be Like WaltPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 7:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Justice is always lost where Trade is concerned.
Speaker: Paolo BacigalupiSource: the Windup GirlPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Laws are confusing documents – they get in the way of justice.
Speaker: Paolo BacigalupiSource: the Windup GirlPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able.
Speaker: George R. R. MartinSource: a Storm of SwordsPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Just because you find something difficult to do, don’t think it’s humanly impossible. If something is humanly possible and appropriate, believe that it can be also attained by you.
Speaker: Marucs AureliusSource: Hurry Up and MeditatePosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The point is not to change
ourselves… It’s about befriending who we are already.Speaker: Pema ChodronSource: Hurry Up and MeditatePosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Understanding of process enables a person to gain control of that process or to gain freedom from being controlled by it.
Speaker: Dalai LamaSource: Hurry Up and MeditatePosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.
Speaker: Cormac McCarthySource: the RoadPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
Speaker: Ursula K Le GuinSource: the Left Hand of DarknessPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!