"The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today."

-- Harold B. Lee

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“I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.”
“What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.”
“Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing - he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.”
“The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.”
“Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception - we want to be perceived as perfect. Again, this is unattainable - there is no way to control perception, regardless of how much time and energy we spend trying.”
“Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.”

Source : Joanna Macy (2007). “World as Lover, World as Self: A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent times”, p.72, Parallax Press
“Jews have a tendency to become comedians.”

Source : "'I dressed as Borat and Ali G fans had no idea it was me': Sacha Baron Cohen on enjoying his anonymity" by Rob Bleaney, www.mirror.co.uk. May 18, 2012.
“Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.”

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