"Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens."

-- Howard Zinn

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“It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to the declaration of a clearly unbalanced nineteenth century philosopher that God is dead! That's cheeky, of course - and one rarely comes away from reading Nietzsche without learning something new and significant. He's certainly FAR more unsettling for faith than any contemporary atheist I know of.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“You don't reward reaction; you reward results.”
“My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.”
“I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going.”
“There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”

Source : "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Communications of the ACM 24 (2), (pp. 75-83), February 1981.
“Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.”

Source : Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1769). “Sermons "on the Duties of the Great,": Translated from the French of M. Massillon, ... by William Dodd, ...”, p.52
“The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.”

Source : Helene Deutsch (1944). “The psychology of women”
“Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.”

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