"Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point."

-- Holly Near

#Thinking Quotes #Umpires Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Progression and achievement belong to those who have learned to use the opportunity of now. Our strides of today will determine our locations tomorrow.”
“I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.”
“Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.”

Source : Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson (2011). “The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind”, p.139, Delacorte Press
“Those who are not capable of sinning are said that they have attained freedom. The knowledge of the Truth raises them even more. This makes them both free and above this world. But only Love creates. He who became free thanks to knowledge, because of Love remains a slave of those who have not managed to attain the Freedom of knowledge yet. He brings the knowledge to them and this develops the latter because it calls them to the Freedom. Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!"”
“It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.”
“I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No,' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.' 'No,' says the man in the Vatican, 'it belongs to God.' 'No,' says the man in Moscow, 'it belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose Rapture.”
“It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how his vision communicated itself through his playing, and how, at the end of each piece, he had the sad habit of running one finger over the length of the plaintive keyboard, as though to tear himself forcibly away from his dream.”
“We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com

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