#assembly

You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups came in and explained, everything important to other kids. they said, 'Look, you're human, you're going to feel isolated and afraid a lot of the time, nad have bad self-esteem, and feel uniquely ruined, but here is the magic phrase that will take this feeling away. It will be like a feather that will lift you out of that fear and self-consciousness every single time, all through your life.' And then they told the cildren who were there that day the magic phrase that everyone else in the world knows about and uses when feeling blue, which only you don't know, because you were home sick the day the grown-ups told the children the way the whole world works. But there was not such a day in school. No one got the instructions. That is the secret of life. Everyone is flailing around, winging it most of the time, trying to find the way out, or through, or up, without a map. This lack of instruction manual is how most people develop compassion, and how they figure out to show up, care, help and serve, as the only way of filling up and being free. Otherwise you gorw up to be someone who needs to dominate and shame others so no one will know that you weren't there the day the instructions were passed out. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#some-assembly-required #life

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#alone #assembly #bondage #burnt #cannot

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#advertising agency #agency #assembly #assembly line #cannot

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#aims #assembly #communities #considered #crowded

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#assemblies #assembly #debates #democratic #dragged

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#better #better life #education #emphasis #enables

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#big #council #eye #general #general assembly

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#admire #appalling #assembly #easy #everything

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#annual #assembly #binding #century #congresses

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#below #character #christianity #cradle #death