"If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate."

-- Thomas Cogswell Upham

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“Our nonverbals govern how other people think and feel about us.”

Source : "Your body language may shape who you are". TED conference, www.ted.com. June 2012.
“Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.”
“The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money.”
“If there were a truly existent I, It would make sense to be afraid of certain things; But, since there is no truly existent I, Who is there to be afraid?”
“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”
“We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.”
“While I was the mayor of BogotÃ¡, I received occasional death threats. Therefore, I had to use a bullet-proof vest. I made a hole right where my heart is. The hole was in the shape of a heart. I believe this kind of gesture, gave me indeed more protection.”
“Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.”

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