"We are close to God when we are close to people. If we think of God as something in favor of the betterment of human beings, and if we act in a way that brings about that betterment-if we do not cling to riches, selfishness, or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God."

-- Daniel Ortega

#God Quotes #Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.”
“Turned out Qhuinn was a snuggler. Who knewâ€”and how fabulous.”
“Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music. . . .”

Source : Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin (1999). “The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made”, Three Rivers Press
“There are only two emotions. Love and fear.... Love and fear is all there is == Everything else is just an offshoot motivated by those two.”
“Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.”
“When we recognise that reflective processes are no more outside the causal net than unreflective processes, and that they are bound by similar constraints, we may come to understand the nature of reflection for the first time.”
“...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.”
“I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.”

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