"In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do."

-- Allen W. Wood

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“Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching.”

Source : "What You May Not Know About the Zimmerman Verdict: The Evolution of a Jury Instruction" by Alafair Burke, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2013.
“Persistence only proves persistence-it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn't mean you are special-it means he is troubled.”

Source : Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company
“We forget weâ€™re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.”
“I love you more than I could ever promise because you take me the way I am.”
“All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.”
“What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?”
“Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. Iâ€™ve had many years of recovery and therapy, years filled with intimate and devoted friendships, yet I still struggle. I know that when someone gets a big slice of pie, it doesnâ€™t mean thereâ€™s less for me. In fact, I know that there isnâ€™t even a pie, that thereâ€™s plenty to go around, enough food and love and air. But I donâ€™t believe it for a second. I secretly believe thereâ€™s a pie. I will go to my grave brandishing my fork.”
“On the first page of the Bible there is an instance of how literalism is but an invitation to transcend the image to which literalism points. That first page is not geology, biology or paleontology; it is high religion. For there we are told who we are in terms of our constititutive text. And if we could understand that, we would worrying about whether the antelopes or the cantaloupes came in a certain order.”

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