"Barack Obama was speaking to a Jewish group, and he told them that his name Barack is the same as the Jewish word 'baruch,' which means one who's blessed. That's what he said, yeah. Obama had a harder time explaining his middle name, Hussein. Things got quiet there."

-- Conan O'Brien

#Blessed Quotes #Mean Quotes #Names Quotes

“I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.”
“The only people who never fail are those who never try”
“Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.”

Source : Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”
“There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.”

Source : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
“The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.”
“One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.”
“Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.”
“We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.”

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