"Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs."

-- Kumi Naidoo

#Promise Quotes #Climate Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.”

Source : Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.41, Pen and Sword
“There's something to me with categorization - it stops you from thinking about the thing that is actually happening.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.”
“As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.”
“Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.”
“The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.”
“Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace.”
“The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the essentials of the history of slavery and its relation to Christian doctrine. Indeed, sad to say, his grasp is a great deal stronger than that of most professors of American history, whose distortions and trivializations disgrace our college classrooms. And the Reverend Mr. Wilson is a fighter, especially effective in defense of Christianity against those who try to turn Jesus' way of salvation into pseudo-moralistic drivel.”

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