"It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we cannot get on top of what is happening, that we are stuck in the middle of it, in medias res, inter-esse, amazing and bewildered. We cannot soar over what is happening with philosophy's eagle-wings. What's happening has clipped our wings."

-- John D. Caputo

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“The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.”
“Sharing is caring, but I don't care.”
“Above all else, we seek connection - with parts of ourselves that we have repressed, with other people, and with the larger universe. We cannot experience life in its fullness unless we have an intimate relationship with another human being and, beyond that, a feeling of connection with the world around us.”
“Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.”
“Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.”
“We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.”
“In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.”
“In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.”

Source : James Allen (2013). “As a Man Thinketh & The Way of Peace”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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