Wells Quotes - Page 31

• What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

  Kamala Harris

  Daughter, Mother, Opportunity

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• Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drinking, Giving, Feelings

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• One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection, blindly picking the rare winners from among numbers drawn at utter random...nevertheless although the miracle of life stands "explained" it does not strike us as any less miraculous. As Francois Mauriac wrote, What this professor says is far more incredible than what we poor Christians believe.

  Jacques Monod

  Christian, Believe, Numbers

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• Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

  Mark Twain

  Years, Names, Two

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• When Zen masters say `effortlessness` they are referring to the state when your enlightenment is well rooted. Now there is no need of any effort; now you can be relaxed and at ease, it will grow on its own accord. It will bring much foliage, and many flowers, and many blessings.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Blessing, Effort

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• Whenever it happens it is never late; whenever it happens it is always early. The happening is so great that you cannot claim it for yourself. You cannot say: `I have earned it.` The happening is so great that it is always through grace and not through effort. It happens through effortlessness. Whenever it happens, you know well that it is through compassion, grace, that it has happened. It has nothing to do with you or your earning

  Rajneesh

  Compassion, Effort, Grace

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• Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.' I repeat, 'By anyone.'

  Pope John Paul II

  Hate, Hatred, Church

  Pope John Paul II (1995). “Spiritual Pilgrimage: Texts on Jews and Judaism, 1979-1995”, Herder & Herder

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• Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world. Jimmy Wales Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

  George Sand

  Kindness, Regret, Thoughtful

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• This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Light, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.146, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our "sympathetic joy," our happiness at another's happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn't stop there.

  Stephen Levine

  Gratitude, Pain, Compassion

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.109, Harmony

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• Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is at best a more than usually safe form of political organization . . . . But if it is to work better as well as merely longer, it must have some leavening effect on human nature; and the sincere democrat is obliged to assume the power of the leaven. [Progressive]

  Herbert Croly

  Fall, Organization, Political

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.400, Cosimo, Inc.

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• So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly blooms into love, know perfectly well that awareness has happened, SAMADHI has been achieved. If you follow the path of love, then let awareness function as a criterion, as a touchstone. When suddenly, from nowhere, at the very center of your love. a flame of awareness starts arising, know perfectly well... rejoice! You have come home.

  Rajneesh

  Home, Love Is, Flames

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• It doesn't happen all the time, but when I'm playing well it's as if my eyes change. I can feel it. I just feel like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-a transformation happens, I'm a totally different human being. I don't hear anybody, I don't see anybody, nothing bothers me, nothing is going to interfere with what I'm about to do.

  Jane Blalock

  Eye, Golf, Hyde

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• When I look at my fellow competitors, I say to myself, 'I many be nervous, but you are definetly nervous as well.'

  Zhang Jinjing

  Motivational, Looks, Nervous

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• "On what motivated Colorado voters: "Let's face it, the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned ... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies often times when they had no violent crimes ... I was against this, but I can see why so many people supported it."

  John Hickenlooper

  War, Kids, Marijuana

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• The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  People, Majority, Poverty

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• He doesn't translate well into our generation.

  Donald Sutherland

  Our Generation, Generations, Aging

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• Well understand this! If you want to join our sales team; I don't need pillion riders; I need high drivers who grasp the handle-bars.

  Martin Carver

  Inspirational, Team, Needs

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• Well, I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.

  John Ehrlichman

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Wind

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 27 July 1973

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• One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art". - Herbert Marcuse
  "Play is a phenomenon of nature and has directed the course of the world from the beginning of time: the formation of matter, its organization into living structures as well as the social behavior of man.

  Manfred Eigen

  Art, Fun, Men

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• Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Selfish, Heart, Science

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• Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.

  Perry Farrell

  Sad, Hurt, Sometimes

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• Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.

  Bernard Lown

  Change, Conspiracy, Folks

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• The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history.

  Cael Sanderson

  Military, Two, President

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• There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

  Barry McGuire

  Song, Travel, Monsters

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