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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#charm #divinely #each #faculties #gave

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live. ↗

— John Avlon

#aspect #between #brand #centrist #choice

I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#enjoy #enjoy life #happy #i #just

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#haven #i #i write #lecture #silent

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#genetic #hopeless #i #mother #pollyanna

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#fire #i #privilege #up #woke

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#hope #life #change

I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#check #every #good #i #kicking

We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#any #cannot #community #country #defying

I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#challenges #got #i #you