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June 1, 2012 § Leave a comment
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” — Anaïs Nin
“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” — Pablo Picasso
“I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” — Henri Matisse
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May 11, 2012 § Leave a comment
“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.” — Barbara Kingsolver
“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.” — Marcus Aurelius
“I would love to satisfy all, if I possibly can, but in trying to satisfy all, I may satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.” — Mohandas K. Ghandi
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April 13, 2012 § Leave a comment
“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.” — Mother Teresa
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.” — George Sand
“Waste no time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus Aurelius
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April 6, 2012 § Leave a comment
“I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than of an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.” — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
“”Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.” — Tennessee Williams
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“The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” — Friedrich Nietzche
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March 23, 2012 § Leave a comment
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.” — Mark Twain
“Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.” — English proverb
“Anxiety is inevitable in an age of crisis like ours … God does not ask you not to feel anxious but to trust him no matter how you feel.” — Thomas Merton
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February 17, 2012 § 2 Comments
“This is what you shall do: love the earth and the sun, and animals; despise riches; give alms to everyone that asks; stand up for the stupid and crazy; devote your income and labor to others; hate tyrants; argue not concerning God; have patience and indulgence towards the people; take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families; read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life; re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books; and dismiss whatever insults your soul.” — Walt Whitman
“Do your little bit of good where you are. It’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” — Bishop Desmond Tutu
“Preach the gospel always, and if necessary use words.” — Attributed to St. Francis of Assisi
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February 3, 2012 § 3 Comments
“Lifting him up, then, he showed him, in a single glance, every realm in the world. And the devil said: ‘All their power and all their glory I will bestow on you, since they are entrusted to me and to those I bestow them on. Bow to me and it is all yours.” — Luke 4: 5-7 [Emphasis added]
“It is astonishing what the devil says: I have all power, it has been given to me, and I am the one to hand it on — submit, and it is yours. Jesus of course does not submit, and sends the devilcumpower to Hell. Not for a moment, however, does Jesus contradict the devil. He does not question that the devil holds all power, nor that this power has been given to him, nor that he, the devil, gives it to whom he pleases. This is a point which is easily overlooked. By his silence Jesus recognizes power that is established as “devil” and defines Himself as The Powerless. He who cannot accept this view on power cannot look at establishments through the spectacle of the Gospel.” — Ivan Illich
“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.” — PJ O’Rourke
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January 13, 2012 § Leave a comment
“Every trial presents its own field of maneuver, with issues rising up in different places on the terrain. Some issues reach commanding heights, others are just a gentle rise; some have evidence arrayed densely on each side, others have evidence more thin. Whatever the layout, the district court knows the ground better than we do. Its understanding comes from the front lines, whereas we are back in a headquarters tent. And thus we defer a great deal to the district court’s judgment as to whether a particular piece of evidence aligns with one issue, or another, or instead does not belong on the field at all.” — US v. Clay, 09-5568 6th Cir. (2012), KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge, dissenting.
“There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals. All their lives, forces which they do not recognize and cannot name, have been tugging at them — inherited instincts, traditional beliefs, acquired convictions; and the resultant is an outlook on life, a conception of social needs. … In this mental background every problem finds it setting. We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.” — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo.
“When we went to school we were told that we were governed by laws, not men. As a result of that, many people think there is no need to pay any attention to judicial candidates because judges merely apply the law by some mathematical formula and a good judge and a bad judge all apply the same kind of law. The fact is that the most important part of a judge’s work is the exercise of judgment and that the law in a court is never better than the common sense judgment of the judge that is presiding.” — US Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
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December 2, 2011 § 1 Comment
“There is no earthly reward for our spiritual efforts. There isn’t even a connection. The payoff for turning to God is more God, not more world.” — Hugh Prather
“I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.” — Denis Diderot
“That you need God more than anything you know at all times in your heart. But don’t you know also that God needs you — in the fullness of his eternity, you?” — Martin Buber
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October 28, 2011 § 2 Comments
San hunters of the Kalahari
“Among the San Bushmen of South Africa … the hunt for game with poison-tipped arrows depends on moving rapidly across the veld. … When men become too old to participate in the hunt, they become makers of arrows — and tradition ascribes to the arrow maker the primary credit for the kill. … Similarly, only when women are too old for childbearing are they permitted to become shamanic healers, a translation of the love and care they have given their children to the health of the wider community. In both cases, an appropriately limited effort is recognized as having a profound value.” — Mary Catherine Bateson
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” — Madeleine L’Engle
“When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.” — W. Somerset Maugham
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