"What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit."

-- John W. Gardner

#Dream Quotes #Spring Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.”
“Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence of a law-like order in nature that is at least in part comprehensible to us.”
“You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.”
“In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.”
“There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.”
“If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it.”
“There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.”
“To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.”

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