"Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."

-- Shane Claiborne

#Mother Quotes #Eye Quotes #Said Quotes

“I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this provided me with the background. It showed me how, possibly, the people lived back then.”
“We are easily deceived about government because we are inclined to accept the following fallacies: (a) Anything legal is also moral. (b) We are not individually responsible for government action. (c) A different moral law applies to men in concert than it does when they act alone.”
“In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.”
“Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time”
“If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.”

Source : Henry Arthur Jones (1925). “Representative Plays: Michael and his lost angel. The liars. Mrs. Dane's defence. The hypocrites”
“[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.”
“Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.”
“If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.”

Source : Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.209, Vintage

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