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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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Doesn’t Means It’s Necessarily Cute
Or True
Or ProfoundSpeaker: Whitney WhitikerPosted: 01 Nov 2011 at 9:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The single biggest influence on our lives was the inescapable sameness of everything, which is probably true for most generations.
Jefferson Morely makes a brilliant point about inflation in his 1988 essay “Twentysomething”: “For us, everything seemed normal. I remember wondering why people were surprised that prices were going up. I thought, That’s what prices did.” Consider that those sentiments come from a guy who was already in high school during Watergate – roughly the same year I was born. To be honest, I don’t know if I’ve ever been legitimately shocked by anything, even as a third-grader in 1981. That was the year John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan, and I wasn’t surprised at all (in fact, it seemed to me that presidential assassinations didn’t happen nearly as often as one would expect). From what I could tell, the world has always been a deeply underwhelming place; my generation inherited this paradigm, and it was perfectly fine with me (both then and now).Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Fargo Rock CityPosted: 08 Nov 2009 at 8:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. The many other things we “give” . . . are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God’s will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!”
Speaker: Elder Neal A. MaxwellSource: The Savior and the Serpent, Unlocking the Doctrines of the Fall, page 61Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 9:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that’s greater than zero. Some things, like the background sound of a bird chirping as it passes your house in the evening, or a flower glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, have such an infinitesimally small effect that you can’t detect them. Some things, like triumph and heartbreak, and some images, like the image of yourself reflected in the eyes of a man you’ve just stabbed, attach themselves to the secret gallery and change your life forever.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 10:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You hear this all the time; critics of organized religion constantly say things like, “There is no way a just God would send a man like Gandhi to hell simply because he’s not a Christian.” Well, why not? I’m certainly pulling for Gandhi’s eternal salvation, but there’s no reason to believe there’s a logic to the afterlife selection process. It might be logical, and it might be arbitrary; in a way, it would be more logical if it was totally arbitrary. But the idea of questioning God’s motives will always be a fiercely American thing to do; it’s almost patriotic to get in God’s face. I’m pretty sure a lot of my friends would love the opportunity to vote against God in a run-off election. Even I’d be curious to see who the other candidate might be (probably Harry Browne).
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have – to hold on tight until the dawn.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Living by faith, then, is not simply a test, but a necessity until we are ready to receive more divine data. Meanwhile, we often go on asking God, as C. S. Lewis observed, questions even He cannot answer because they are the equivalent of: “How big is Yellow?” When we often can’t frame the right question, and could not contain the answer if it were given, silence must be God’s only response at times.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: For the Power is Unto ThemPosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 1:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Speaker: William ShakespeareSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 3:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years; but which I had better bother about, very seriously, if I’m going to live forever. Perhaps my bad temper or my jealousy are gradually getting worse. So gradually, however, that the increase in seventy years will not be very noticeable. But it might be absolute hell in a million years!
Speaker: C.S LewisSource: The Man and His MessagePosted: 13 Jan 2009 at 1:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
Speaker: Ellen GoodmanPosted: 16 Oct 2008 at 9:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whoever fears to submit any question to the test of free discussion loves his opinion more than he loves the truth.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Speaker: MAHATMA GANDHIPosted: 24 May 2009 at 1:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I believe that one of the greatest sins of which the inhabitants of the earth are guilty today is the sin of ingratitude.
Speaker: Joseph SmithPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I was surprised and mawkishly heartbroken. I am always moved by that seldom-used treasure, the sweetness with which most girls can sing.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Speaker: Martin Luther KingPosted: 03 Nov 2011 at 3:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Wherever you go in the world, in any society, it is always the same when it comes to questions of justice,” lord Abdel Khader Khan, my mafia boss and my surrogate father, told me when I’d been six months in his service. “We concentrate our laws, investigations, prosecutions, and punishments on how much crime is in the sin, rather than how much sin is in the crime.
“…For me,” he went on as we ate, “the opposite is true. For me, the most important thing is the amount of sin that is in the crime. You asked me, just now, why we do not make money from prostitution and drugs, as the other councils do, and I tell you it is because of the sin that is in those crimes. It is for this reason that I will not sell children, or women, or pornography, or drugs. It is for this reason that I will not permit those businesses in any of my areas. In all of these things, the sin in the crime is so great that a man must give up his soul for the profit he makes. And if a man gives his soul, if he becomes a soul-less man, it takes nothing less than a miracle for him to regain it.”Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The Lord wants us to be made over – but in His image, not in the image of the world, by receiving His image in our countenances.
Speaker: Susan W. TannerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you follow someone who fails to lead, they will lead you to failure.
Speaker: Kerry ColeSource: Discussion Board, CIS 633 Class, Bellevue UniversityPosted: 02 Sep 2009 at 7:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
Speaker: JOHN G. POLLARDPosted: 24 May 2009 at 12:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!