"Marx did not recognize that our desire to connect with a transcendent power runs even deeper than our drive for economic satisfaction. Each of us seeks. How we honor each other's search will tell the tale of the next millennium."

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Source : "Stepping On Sacred Ground" by Jeffrey Klein, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1997.

Jeffrey Klein

#Running Quotes #Honor Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I think of the Kennedy family and I think of their faith... Along came John F. Kennedy and a part of his legacy is that... he didn't just break the Catholic barrier, he crushed it.”
“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.”

Source : Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.8, Random House
“Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.”

Source : Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company
“In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable”

Source : Garrett James Hardin (1999). “The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia”, p.140, Oxford University Press on Demand
“The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.”

Source : "Spurs' fortitude fueled title run" by J.A. Adande, www.espn.com. November 19, 2014.
“No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted by others more colourful and less printable, and because our capacity for surprise has long since been dulled by a surfeit of sources.”
“The power of HEART is much stronger than the power of MIND to empower our life.”
“I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.”

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