"If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition."
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"Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes."
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"The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does."
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"It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it."
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"It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure."
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"Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible."
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"A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God."
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"The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done."
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"Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be."
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"Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life."
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"A student undergoing a word association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "Because everything does.""
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"Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest. My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc. Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that's imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word."
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"I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?"
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"Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?"
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"It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury."
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"The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others."
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"The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes."
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"We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people."
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"The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness."
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"A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually."
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