"It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference between what is of God and what is not. Such a person can often point out false teachings or false teachers—he has an almost uncanny ability to perceivehypocrisy, shallowness, deceit, or phoniness."
Billy Graham
Inspiration
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
William Gaddis
Inspiration
I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have.
Andie MacDowell
Inspiration
I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.
James D. Sass
"Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
"That's half of your trouble,' muttered the crocodile. 'You believe everything's true.'That's because everything is,' replied Mr. Bacchus."
Clive Barker
"Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed."
Zhuangzi
"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."
William Temple
Inspiration
Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.
Robert Dallek
Inspiration
The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!
Marianne Williamson
"Growing up learning of distant lands and their bloody histories, Wareska had quickly noticed how pointing to someone else as unquestionably worse was a widely common justification for many atrocities."
Ash Gray
"Hey Jake. I got an idea.''Be gentle with it,' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place."
Spider Robinson
Inspiration
What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.
Jewel
"The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths."
Aleksandar Hemon
"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at."
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