I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
BEN BERNANKEUncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI -
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
MILTON FRIEDMAN -
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged – keep on – there are divine things, well envelop’d; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
WALT WHITMAN -
The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process. Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.
BAN KI-MOON -
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER -
But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL -
A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts.
IRVING BERLIN -
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
WALTER SCOTT -
But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
AL SHARPTON -
As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.
BETTY SMITH -
Anger cannot be dishonest.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Let things break you wide open, that’s where the golden light is.
BUTTERFLIES RISING -
When the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness
ABERJHANI -
The war of hearts has too many casualties.
CINDY -
The Iraq War is largely about oil.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
The rosary is a weapon against depression and hopelessness.
BENEDICT GROESCHEL -
Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging the character of people in regard to human rights is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian.
BAYARD RUSTIN -
There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
FULTON J. SHEEN -
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
TOM WAITS -
I want to be role model for people to be like, ‘I don’t need a major label to be a successful artist and to have a successful song.’
MADISON BEER -
Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
TARA BRACH -
Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
BEN CARSON -
They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
BARACK OBAMA -
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELL