"Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Individual Quotes #Identification Quotes #Process Quotes

“God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.”
“I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.”
“In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life.”

Source : "Anderson Cooper: 'The Fact Is, I'm Gay'" by Andrew Sullivan, dish.andrewsullivan.com. July 2, 2012.
“Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.”
“It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.”
“When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after lots of effort, is a working system that cannot be easily maintained or upgraded. Good -but not great- programmers would fail early, causing a realization that the system must be redesigned, and then reimplemented. The extra cost is paid once, early in the system's cycle (when it is cheap), instead of repeatedly paid late in the system's cycle (when it is more expensive).”
“A soul untried by sorrows is good for nothing.”
“Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.”

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