"I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Hypocrisy Quotes #Community Quotes #Inability Quotes

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
“The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.”
“It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about this responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason.”
“I don't like to get hit, who likes it? I probably wouldn't do this sport if I was getting hit that much.”
“... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.”

Source : Nelson Algren (1961). “Chicago: The City on the Make”
“Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The tiny world of lovers' arms. Silence invades the breathing wood Where drowsy limbs a treasure keep, Now greenly falls the learned shade Across the sleeping brows And stirs their secret to a smile. Restored! Returned! The lost are borne On seas of shipwreck home at last: See! In a fire of praising burns The dry dumb past, and we Our life-day long shall part no more.”
“The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.”
“I haven't taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.”

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