"I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think."

-- Jimmy Wales

#War Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.”
“What shall we call this undetermin'd state, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, That whence we came, and that to which we tend?”

Source : George Lillo, John HOADLY (LL.D., Dramatic Writer.) (1762). “Arden of Feversham: An Historical Tragedy: Taken from Holingshead's Chronicle, In the Reign of King Edward VI. Acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane. By the Late Mr. Lillo”, p.34
“I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.”

Source : " Anthony Storr, the face of psychiatry, dies" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2001.
“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.”

Source : Helen Hayes, Marion Glasserow Gladney (1986). “Our Best Years”, Doubleday Books
“All is well since all grows better”
“The answer is, of course, to simplify, to prioritize, and in some cases, to use a well-known phrase, "Just say no!" But actually doing it may prove to be one of the real challenges in our complicated, overheated lives.”
“And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.”
“I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.”

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