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We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your government does not exist, and should not exist, in order to keep you or anybody else – no matter what color, no matter what race, no matter what religion – from getting your damn fool feelings hurt.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If Christ hadn’t delivered the Sermon on the Mount, with its message of mercy and pity, I wouldn’t want to be a human being – I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:38 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am enchanted by the Sermon on the Mount. Being merciful, it seems to me, is the only good idea we have had so far. Perhaps we will get another good idea by and by. And then, we will have two good ideas.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There’s only one rule that I know of: goddammit, you’ve got to be kind!
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Speaker: Richard Buckminster FullerPosted: 01 Jun 2014 at 10:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Speaker: Frederick DouglassPosted: 01 Jun 2014 at 10:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 01 Jun 2014 at 10:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You will know that you are free when you no longer have to be you.
Speaker: Don Miguel RuizSource: the Tree of KnowledgePosted: 21 May 2014 at 4:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are too many lies in my head to accept something as simple as the truth.
Speaker: Don Miguel RuizSource: the Voice of KnowledgePosted: 21 May 2014 at 3:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The very act of believing creates strength of its own.
Posted: 12 May 2014 at 10:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For children, love is a feeling. For adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts. Adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
Speaker: Orson Scott CardSource: PathfinderPosted: 26 Mar 2014 at 11:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperiences, and the potentially offensive actions of others.”
Speaker: David A. BednarSource: "And Nothing Shall Offend Them," OCTOBER 2006 Conference ReportPosted: 10 Mar 2014 at 4:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“...it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. TO BE OFFENDED IS A CHOICE WE MAKE; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.”
Speaker: David A. BednarSource: "And Nothing Shall Offend Them," OCTOBER 2006 Conference ReportPosted: 10 Mar 2014 at 4:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Speaker: Mary Kay AshPosted: 10 Mar 2014 at 3:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
None of us knows God until someone introduces us.
Speaker: "Pi Patel"Source: the Life of PiPosted: 04 Mar 2014 at 10:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People have one great blessing – obscurity – and not really too many people are thankful for it.
Speaker: Bob DylanPosted: 26 Feb 2014 at 3:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Privilege is when you think that something’s not a problem because it’s not a problem for you personally. If you’re part of a group that’s being catered to, you believe that’s the way it should be. It’s always been that way, why would that be a problem for anyone?
Speaker: David GaiderPosted: 25 Feb 2014 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.
Speaker: John Von NeumannPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most people would rather die than think; many do.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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