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  • Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:44 AM
    Posted By: Puck
  • Don’t try to get a lot of people to like you. Try to get a few people to love you; then do it over and over again.

    Speaker: Ramit Sethi
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:44 AM
    Posted By: Puck
  • Tyrants conduct monologues above a million solitudes.

    Speaker: Albert Camus
    Source: the Rebel
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:43 AM
    Posted By: Puck
  • Wall Street is a casino in which high stakes wagers are placed within a limited number of betting houses that keep a percentage of the wins for themselves and fob off losses on others, including taxpayers.

    Speaker: Robert Reich
    Source: Aftershock
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:42 AM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: politics, wealth
  • One of the basic assumptions of capitalism is that those who earn huge sums of money must be worth it.

    Speaker: Robert Reich
    Source: Aftershock
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:42 AM
    Posted By: Puck
  • Few fictions of modern economic life are more assiduously defended than the central importance of the Street to the well-being of the rest of us.

    Speaker: Robert Reich
    Source: Aftershock
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:41 AM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: inequality, money
  • Being rich now means having enough money that you don’t have to encounter anyone who isn’t.

    Speaker: Robert Reich
    Source: Aftershock
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:41 AM
    Posted By: Puck
  • Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality.

    Source: Covenants, Ensign, May 1987
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 24 Oct 2014 at 7:44 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
  • One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of such things (all the duties, rules, guilt, virtues of mortality), except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.

    Speaker: C. S. Lewis
    Source: Mere Christianity
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 07 Oct 2014 at 12:03 PM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
  • Let your life be like a snowflake,
    which leaves a mark, but not a stain.

    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 15 Sep 2014 at 1:01 PM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: life
  • Thought: Which of the seven dips in the Jordan river healed Naamen of leprosy?

    The gospel is a very repetitive gospel. But, it is the accumulation of simple repeated acts that bring the Lord’s blessings and a testimony of strong fibre.

    Speaker: Gay
    Source: Based off of class by S. Michael Wilcox, 2010
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 09 Sep 2014 at 7:23 AM
    Posted By: MindMeldMom
    Tags: endurance, faith
  • You never have to worry about your bluff being called if you’re never bluffing.

    Speaker: the Angry DM
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 5:38 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: bluffing
  • Toddler soccer is like watching a political discussion on cable news. It starts off serious and ends in embarrassment for all involved.

    Speaker: Jim Gaffigan
    Source: Dad is Fat
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 3:00 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: humor, news, politics
  • True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

    Speaker: Kurt Vonnegut
    Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:57 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • As I read the book of Genesis, God didn’t give Adam and Eve a whole planet – he gave them a manageable piece of property.
    ...I suggest to you Adams and Eves that you set as your goals the putting of some small part of the planet into something like safe and sane and decent order.

    Speaker: Kurt Vonnegut
    Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:56 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • My politics in a nutshell? Let’s stop giving corporations and newfangled contraptions what they need and get back to giving human beings what we need.

    Speaker: Kurt Vonnegut
    Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:54 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • Dostoevsky suggested that one sacred memory from childhood was, perhaps, the best education.
    I say to you that one plausible, romantic theory about humanity is perhaps the best prize you can take away from a university.

    Speaker: Kurt Vonnegut
    Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:52 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • As long as there is a lower class, I’m in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I’m of it. As long as there’s a soul in prison, I am not free.

    Speaker: Eugene Debs
    Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:50 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • Most of us are loaded with Original Sin, but a surprising number of us – not me, God knows – are loaded with Original Virtue. Ain’t that sweet?

    Speaker: Kurt Vonnegut
    Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:48 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: humanism, sin, virtue
  • Doesn’t anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like, great public schools or health insurance for all.
    How about Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God,” and so on. Not exactly planks in a Republican platform.
    For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But often, with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And, of course, that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
    “Blessed are the merciful” in a courtroom?
    “Blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon?
    Gimme a break.

    Speaker: Kurt Vonnegut
    Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:47 PM
    Posted By: Puck