"When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky."

-- Christmas Humphreys

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sky Quotes

“Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.”
“Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.”
“Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?"”

Source : Carolyn Maloney's Speech at Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.
“I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.”
“No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.”
“As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. 'Stop! Don't use that, I have exactly the right utensil.' After I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her. Now I've become her.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick was too smart to fully embrace Consequentialism. All of these great traditions in moral philosophy express strands of our moral consciousness and they should all be treated as research programs rather than as fully determinate views that can be leveled by a counterexample or by a clever argument.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Jesus gave us the victory with which He overcame Satan, and commissioned us to cast out devils in His Name.”

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