"The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood."
Michelle Templet
"When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer."
Donna Quesada
"Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves."
Richard Burr
"The Four Agreements:1. Be impeccable with your word.2. Don't take anything personally. 3. Don't make assumptions. 4. Always do your best."
Miguel Ruiz
"When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over."
W.H. Auden
"Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below."
John Dryden
"In knowledge there is strength, in understanding there is might, and in wisdom there is power."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it."
Eugene H. Peterson
"A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself."
Criss Jami
"Outdated ideas inevitably lead to outdated behaviors. When ignorance and hate enter the room, progress makes its exit."
Anonymous
"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
Anonymous
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
James D. Nicoll
"In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?"
Harold Pinter
"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity."
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