"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."

-- William Wordsworth

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“Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.”
“The answers to the world's perplexities are, in fact, found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ . . . The more we can bring others to see the gospel in action, the more they will be willing to at least tolerate us, then to encourage us, and eventually to cooperate with us.”
“Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?”
“What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.”
“Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.”
“If you decide on your direction, God will give you the energy for the distance.”
“Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a societyâ€™s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?”
“Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.”

Source : "Altruistic groups, selfish people win". Interview with Zinta Lundborg, www.postandcourier.com. May 5, 2012.

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