"There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself."

-- Margaret Deland

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“Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.”

Source : "Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, reference.bahai.org. 1978.
“A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.”
“Twitter is like Ozymandias' wall of tv's in Watchmen. You don't read every tweet, but from the whole you can absorb the zeitgeist.”
“Until we are free to think for ourselves, our dreams are not free to unfold.”

Source : Nancy Kline (1999). “Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind”, p.182, Hachette UK
“They say I couldn't play football, I was too small. They say I couldn't play basketball, I wasn't tall. They say I couldn't play baseball at all and now everyday of my life, I ball.”
“It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.”
“They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.”
“Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.”

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