"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."

-- Josh Billings

#Wisdom Quotes #Learning Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when Iâ€™m out in nature. Itâ€™s just something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it's enough for me.”
“What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.”
“I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.”
“There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.”
“self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.”
“How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we donâ€™t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?”
“Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.”
“The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.”

Source : "From Freedom to Slavery : The Rebirth of Tyranny in America". Book by Gerry Spence, 1996.

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