"In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest."

-- Harold Geneen

#Self Quotes #Purpose Quotes #World Quotes

“Our responsibility is to love God and to love our neighbour which is what Jesus taught and it's also what Judaism taught - and that would make sense because Jesus was Jewish.”
“You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them â€” for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.”
“When your people have determined that you understand their lies in their hearts and are dedicated to their functional wellbeing, they will compensate for your weaknesses and shore up your strengths.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation.”
“One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.”

Source : "David Halberstam". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.
“It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.”

Source : Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library
“When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.”

Source : "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.
“Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated the Scopes trial within a much broader context than any scholar before him.Â Trying BiologyÂ also demonstrates how ideologues have used differing interpretations of the Scopes trial to advance their agendas. By situating the trial within this much broader framework, the author has significantly enlarged our understanding of the conversations between religion and science in twentieth-century America.”

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