"We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance."

-- Goran Persson

#Thinking Quotes #Kyoto Quotes #Substance Quotes

“Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.”
“I would say that the powerful, revolutionary thing about Jesus' message is that he says, 'What do you do with the people that aren't like you? What do you do with the Other? What do you do with the person that's hardest to love?' . . . That's the measure of a good religion, is - you can love the people who are just like you; that's kind of easy. So what Jesus does is takes the question and talks about fruit. He's interested in what you actually produce. And that's a different discussion. How do we love the people in the world that are least like us?”

Source : "Rob Bell Comes Out for Marriage Equality" by Greg Carey, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.
“Loving yourself means making choices that allow you to care for the important person that you are.”
“I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.”

Source : "Watchtower Actor Aleks Paunovic: Getting out of his own way, and the importance of trying". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way.”
“But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.”
“I believe the medium of film is one of the most powerful tools in the modern era to create positive social change. It has the ability to put big, complex, and controversial subjects across in an easy-to-understand and digestible form. It has the power to change someone's perspective on the world in a very short space of time - film has the power to change the world itself.”
“What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.”

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