"Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty."

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Bruce Feiler

#Father Quotes #People Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Murder is only killing in the wrong place.”

Source : Pat Barker (2013). “The Ghost Road”, p.30, Penguin
“I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.”
“I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.”
“So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.”
“It's hard to align with money if you think that it is evil and nasty. But once you come to an understanding that money is neutral, it's easy to see that having money does not necessarily deprive somebody else. There's no reason why you can't be very rich and still be an extremely spiritual and wonderfully generous person-aligned to the God Force-with a huge heart, and compassion for everyone you meet.”

Source : "Can Toby Young's free school succeed?". Interview with Peter Wilby, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2011.
“Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.”

Source : Twitter post from May 09, 2013
“I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation ... and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose, which is a tendency that I have, to be concise. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.”
“Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.”

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