"Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating moral critiques of American excesses, and so on, and also a communal role, in terms of building community as the country moved westward to the role my own Catholic Church played in assimilating generations of immigrants."

-- Ross Douthat

#Country Quotes #Years Quotes #Community Quotes

“I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.”
“Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.”

Source : "Computer Lib". Book by Ted Nelson, p. 42 / Dream Machines p.45, 1974.
“We're vulnerable to repeating history, especially if we don't know what's driving us. For example, it may be a family tradition to marry someone with addiction problems, or who is an injured bird in need of caretaking. Or, you may be drawn to guys who remind you of your distant, unavailable father -- or your ill-tempered mother -- with the unconscious belief that you can take an old story, and through the power of your love, give it a new, happy ending.”
“...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.”
“Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”
“Thereâ€™s an opportunity cost to everything.”
“We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.”
“Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.”

Source : Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.17, Penguin

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