"If you can look at one of these waves and you don't believe that there's something greater than we are, then you've got some serious analyzing to do and you should go sit under a tree for a very long time."

-- Laird Hamilton

#Believe Quotes #Long Quotes #Tree Quotes

“I'm not the kind of man that holds out on a need for nothing. I'm as lonely as any man around, I just don't like to pick 'em up and lay 'em down.”
“Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who who achieved sanctity by fulfilling their obligations well.”
“In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)”
“Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.”

Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?”
“At least 3,527 U.S. monthly records for heat, rain, and snow were broken in 2012. We can't let this continue unchecked, and we don't have to.”
“For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title.”
“In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.”

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