"Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you..."

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Source : Banana Yoshimoto, Russell F. Wasden (1998). “Amrita”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

Banana Yoshimoto

#Real Quotes #Levels Quotes #Limits Quotes

“We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.”

Source : Warren E. Burger (1978). “Trial court advocacy: a checklist of comments”
“It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.”

Source : Margaret Fuller (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.28
“We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.”
“Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around claiming that our "God made the heaven and the earth," it is not unreasonable to expect us to know something about what that heaven and earth actually are.”
“I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men....”
“When satan wants you to cry and you laugh, you defeat him”
“It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.”
“Today we are all Egyptians.”

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