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Joan D. Chittister

"Contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face to face with the world, face to face with the self. And then, of course, something must be done. Nothing stays the same once we have found the God withinâ€¦. We carry the world in our hearts: the oppression of all peoples, the suffering of our friends, the burdens of our enemies, the raping of the Earth, the hunger of the starving, the joy of every laughing child."

-- Joan D. Chittister

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“People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people-people of character and moral literacy-can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and some of its pervasive particulars.”

Source : "The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories". Book edited by William Bennett, 1993.
“Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.”
“No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.”
“Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.”
“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.”
“People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.”
“My mother played a little bit of the old time clawhammer. She tuned the banjo up and picked one tune for me, and it just become natural to me. When she picked it, I just started and picked it, too.”

Source : "Ralph Stanley, Bluegrass Legend, Dies At 89". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. June 24, 2016.
“Anomalocaridids seemed to lack front limbs, being an arthropod - being a joint-legged animal - and not having legs, it's kind of embarrassing.”

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