"Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Hands Quotes #Time Passing Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God. We, like Jesus, see what our Father is doing and do likewise (John 5:19). And what our Father is doing, it turns out, is fighting for orphans, making them sons and daughters.”
“Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organizationâ€”a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.”

Source : Anthony D. Williams, Don Tapscott (2011). “Wikinomics”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd
“I told her once I wasnâ€™t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
“If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.”
“Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.”
“The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession.”
“Many people who call themselves deflationists are deflationists about propositional truth but not about sentential truth. I only ever mention that view to distinguish it from disquotationalism. I don't really have any objection to it, other than that I don't believe in propositions, so I don't think there's any such thing as a proposition's being true. Truth, on my view, is primarily a property of representations, such as sentences and certain kinds of mental states.”
“I'm broke, I'm bored and I'm back.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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