"I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke."

-- Luther Vandross

#Sadness Quotes #Joy Quotes #Strokes Quotes

“I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions”
“I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing,”

Source : "Casey At The Mike" by Susan Orlean, www.nytimes.com. May 6, 1990.
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
“But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized.”
“I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.”

Source : John S. Pistole at Senate hearing on TSA, full-body scanners, www.cnet.com. November 16, 2010.
“What Is Meditation? It is not musing, not daydreaming; but as ye find you bodies made up of the physical, mental and spiritual, it is the attuning of the mental body and the physical body to its spiritual source.”
“To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.”
“Actuated by these motives, and apprehensive of disturbing the repose of an unsettled reign, Julian surprised the world by an edict which was not unworthy of a statesman or a philosopher. He extended to all the inhabitants of the Roman world the benefits of a free and equal toleration; and the only hardship which he inflicted on the Christians was to deprive them of the power of tormenting their fellow-subjects, whom they stigmatised with the odious titles of idolaters and heretics.”

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