"If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired."

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Source : Rabbi Sherwin Wine" by Lawrence Joffe, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.

Sherwin Wine

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“Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.”
“What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?”

Source : James K. A. Smith (2009). “Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation”, p.18, Baker Academic
“When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.”
“To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.”

Source : West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)
“Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation: the site behaves as the visitor expects. Poor or missing information architecture neuters content, design, and programming and devalues the site for its owners as well as the audience it was created to serve. Itâ€™s like a film with no director. The actors may be good, the sets may be lovely, but audiences will leave soon after the opening credits.”
“The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree”

Source : Anchee Min (2006). “Empress Orchid”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing
“A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.”
“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.”

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