"Curious,â€ Bauchelain said. â€œWhat is it you wish us to do for you?â€ â€œUsurp the king,â€ Imid Factalo said. â€œUsurp, as in depose.â€ â€œRight.â€ â€œDepose, as in remove.â€ â€œYes.â€ â€œRemove, as in kill."

-- Steven Erikson

#Kings Quotes #Wish Quotes #Curious Quotes

“Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.”

Source : Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.118, Basic Books
“Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.”

Source : Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2012). “The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings”, p.80, Moody Publishers
“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”
“I can't hear what Jeremy says because my ears are blocked with my two Stanley Cup Rings.”
“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”

Source : Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.263, Broadway Books
“It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.”

Source : Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance”, p.242, Seven Stories Press
“I throw out compliments to strangers all the time, because I would like it back at me, and do unto others.”
“... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.”

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