"I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . ."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“People aren't things to be molded; they are lives to be unfolded. And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.”
“I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.”
“Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.”
“Evolution occurs in the world of time and space and form, whereas Spirit's primordial nature is finally timeless and Formless, prior to the of evolution but not other to it. We do not find Spirit or Emptiness by reaching some evolutionary Omega point in time, but rather by stepping off the cycle of time and evolution altogether (or ceasing to contract into it).”
“Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.”
“I try to manage my time to conserve energy.”

Source : "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". edition.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.
“I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“All problems are divided into two classes, soluble questions, which are trivial and important questions which are insoluble.”

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