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| df6be01 | Arguing whether or not God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name of God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. | humor-inspirational humorous humour spirituality spirituality-quotes | Robert Fulghum | |
| fc0d1a8 | Moths and butterflies are not the same thing. Moths sneak around in the dark munching your sweater and are ugly. Butterflies hand out with flowers in the daytime and are pretty. Never mind any facts or what silkworm moths are responsible for, or what poisonous butterflies do. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 5173973 | Out of the mouths of babes may come gems of wisdom, but also garbage. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| d68bc32 | Why is there Something instead of Nothing? | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 3c5c3d1 | You know, without realizing it we fill important places in each other's lives. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 6ef809f | If I don't have time to live my life right the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over? | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 364da42 | As long as life exists, something always happens next. There are always consequences--always sequels. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| d1b7b24 | Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know." -- Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" -- | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 06a73f6 | Circumstances, luck, mutual need, affection and time played a part. No relationships were made in heaven. They were made because living things were looking for good company. And when you found good company, you valued it deeply and were responsible for its up-keep and well-being. | relationships | Robert Fulghum | |
| b136f96 | World War I ended at precisely eleven o'clock on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the year 1918. | Richard Shenkman | ||
| 3d468f5 | other people. At about seven minutes past | Richard Shenkman | ||
| 9aa78f7 | Contrary to popular belief, Hollywood's good weather had little to do with its establishment as the movie capital of the United States. It was chosen not because of its warm climate but primarily because it lay within easy reach of the Mexican border. | Richard Shenkman | ||
| bd81534 | All he had to do was simultaneously solve several multiple-variable equations, and hope he'd get it right. | Larry Bond | ||
| 7f86ba1 | First, the word she used that we translate kindness is the Hebrew hesed. It's a word that refers to a strongly bonded relationship where one party continues to be faithfully involved with another because it is the character of the first party to do so. | Larry Crabb | ||
| 04e3654 | One of the reasons wars go on is because of the price both sides have paid in blood. After a while, even if the original reason no longer matters, you keep on fighting because you don't want all those deaths to be in vain. | Larry Bond | ||
| 4979d61 | drive | Larry Bond | ||
| bece5b3 | Arab-Jewish relations in the Old City had always been good. Most of the property in the quarter was Arab-owned, and one of its familiar sights was the Arab rent collector making his way from house to house, pausing in each for the rent and a ritual cup of coffee. Here the Islamic respect for men of religion had been naturally extended to the quarter's scholars in their yeshivas. As for the quarter's poor artisans and shopkeepers, the most n.. | Larry Collins | ||
| e6644c0 | maturity | Larry E. Swedroe | ||
| d9fe246 | Overconfidence will negate our technological advantage faster than anything the other guy could do. | Larry Bond | ||
| 96473f5 | Churchill made a point about the power of government: A National or Municipal Beef Trust, with the United States Treasury at its back, might indeed give more regular employment at higher wages to its servants, and might sell cleaner food to its customers--at a price. But if evil systems corrupt good men, it is no less true that base men will dishonor any system, and while no bond of duty more exacting than that of material recompense regula.. | Larry P Arnn | ||
| 5fc3b96 | If you want to change the story that justifies current structures of power and privilege, you must have such a combination of bold goals and specific steps. | Eric Liu | ||
| d58df4b | In our country, there is so much that's wrong with the way we deliver care to the aging, the very young, and the infirm. But you can't beat something with nothing. It is not enough to decry what's broken. You have to describe the alternative and make it possible for people to believe in it. To care. | Eric Liu | ||
| aa0f7b7 | uses a method for organizing that centers on three nested narratives: the story of self, the story of us, and the story of now. He teaches organizers entering into any setting to start not with policy proposals or high concepts like justice but with biographies--their own, and those of the people they hope to mobilize. What are the stories you tell about yourself? Why do you tell them that way? How can we find connections across our stories.. | Eric Liu | ||
| 5f5c3a0 | Power justifies itself, in countless small ways. But one of the big ways it does so is by creating an ideological narrative about how things got to be this way--and what must now change. These narratives are more than technical explanations. They are epic morality tales, and they typically follow this sequence: Paradise Paradise Lost Paradise Redeemed | Eric Liu | ||
| 8e333c2 | Every person and institution with power in our society today has it because we give it to them. | Eric Liu | ||
| 2553575 | First, power concentrates. That is, it feeds on itself and compounds (as does powerlessness). * Second, power justifies itself. People invent stories to legitimize the power they have (or lack). * Third, power is infinite. There is no inherent limit on the amount of power people can create. | Eric Liu | ||
| 6912cbd | In American politics, power is presumptively illegitimate. It's important to remember this. Our founding is premised on the notion that power is inherently hostile to freedom. The pamphlets of the Revolution are heavy with warnings that citizens must "jealously" guard their liberties against tyrannies of the state. The Constitution, even as it created a stronger national government, hobbled that government with checks and balances, separati.. | Eric Liu | ||
| adf37ea | To me, this passage is essentially the Chinese equivalent of the Socratic claim that the unexamined life is not worth living. It has exactly the same rhetorical assertiveness and moral severity: the unexamined life is not just less good; it's useless. | Eric Liu | ||
| 55de0bb | Meaning, though, changes with time; text with context. What am I to do? There was a time, as in the minutes after we learned of my father's death, when those words or words roughly like them, uttered in panic, escaped my mother's lips. Today, after so many years of lonely meditation, and so many conversations with me that describe but a fraction of those meditations, and so many outings and travels with her Bon Sisters and other friends to .. | Eric Liu | ||
| af69ad5 | In civically flourishing societies, the people remember that the system is healthiest and most robust when power emerges from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down. In such societies, the people recognize that it is not only fair that power be circulated widely; it is also wise. | Eric Liu | ||
| a18909d | Which is why, from the Inca Empire to the Soviet Union, extractive societies have been prone to collapse. Power naturally flows to the top. We've established that. But where power flows to the top and stays there, without correction or recirculation, a society is likely to die a catastrophic death. | Eric Liu | ||
| 69c6a21 | They share a vision of a society where more people are able to claim and create more power--for themselves, by themselves--against the encroachments of others. And they now share an experience that teaches them that it is both possible and necessary to create power: to activate people who very reasonably could believe that the deck is so stacked against them that there's no point in getting involved. | Eric Liu | ||
| 5dac93a | By deliberately withholding power, you generate more. By choosing to redirect it, you remember that the choice is yours. Such acts remind us how much dormant civic power we actually have--and how infrequently we ever activate that potential in full. | Eric Liu | ||
| 48d3be4 | We haven't truly enabled all the people of this society to participate in self-government to the fullest extent of their potential. We haven't come close, not in an age when our elected officials and their staffs are overwhelmingly white, male, and affluent. Nor have we truly enabled all the people of this society to participate fully in economic life as creators and contributors. Not when 48 percent of the new jobs in the country are low-w.. | Eric Liu | ||
| 0c14573 | It was there, during the 1960s, that his evolution into a firebrand revolutionary began. He became a vocal leader in the emerging Chicano movement. He joined black student activist Larry Gossett, Native American leader Bernie Whitebear, and Asian American leader Bob Santos to create multiracial coalitions for justice in education, policing, immigration, and other issues. Together they became masters of organizing and direct action. The so-c.. | Eric Liu | ||
| bac859b | The story of El Centro's creation and flourishing reminds us that civic power may not require a plan--but it does require a purpose. | Eric Liu | ||
| 22b9d00 | Change the game: 1. Adjust the arena. 2. Re-rig the rules. 3. Attack the plan. Change the story: 1. Describe the alternative. 2. Organize in narratives. 3. Make your fight a fable. Change the equation: 1. Act exponentially. 2. Act reciprocally. 3. Perform your power. | Eric Liu | ||
| 725f59a | Until I die again, perhaps. Until the next replay. Then it all vanishes." Jeff shook his head, his arm tightly around her shoulders. "Only the products of your work will disappear. The struggle, the devotion you put into your endeavors ... That's where the value truly lies, and will remain: within you." | life philosophy-of-life | Ken Grimwood | |
| 5b97ccb | You and I...have lived many lives. | Ken Grimwood | ||
| b6f3dc2 | The water was calm and blue today, and as they walked along the dunes they could see the hump of Poplar Island off the Eastern Shore. | Ken Grimwood | ||
| 053311e | The only thing that mattered was the quarter century or so he had remaining would be HIS life, to live out as he chose and in his own best interests. Nothing took precedence over that...The possibilities...were endless. | Ken Grimwood | ||
| e8ad92e | blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as "untouchables." | Greg Iles | ||
| 14790f4 | diffident voice. "You're not going to believe this." | Greg Iles | ||
| 01d7626 | Alf caught the child and gave him to Father. She was gripping Coral, thrusting her out. Willing, anxious hands were holding a blanket. She was trying to make the boy Walter jump too. But the children were terrified, and dazed by the smoke. They would not jump. They would not obey. Hannah lifted them, then dropped them on to the blanket. 'Hannah, come down. Jump yerself. Quick! Quick!' Alf was struggling to fight his way in through the flame.. | Radclyffe Hall |