"Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the voice of God. In this time of preparation for Christmas, let us cultivate interior recollection so as to receive and keep Jesus in our lives.'"

-- Pope Benedict XVI

#Jesus Quotes #Voice Quotes #Silence Quotes

“The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.”
“All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.
“Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature. But we live in a world in which all sorts of change is happening all the time, and the only way to understand what climate change will bring is to tell stories about how it manifests in people's lives.”
“Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of interest in charitable service.”
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
“I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.”
“Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable.”
“It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.”

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