"I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more."

-- Mother Teresa

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Hands Quotes

“The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills.”

Source : "Scratches in the Temple Wall - An Interview with Travis Nichols". Interview with Paul Killebrew, logger.believermag.com. July 29, 2013.
“I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.”
“Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related story, there's a huge sale at K-Mart.”
“Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.”
“Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.”
“I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.”
“It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.”
“It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.”

Source : Leo Strauss (1996). “Spinoza's Critique of Religion”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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