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This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire. ↗

— Shane Claiborne

#jesus #need #politics #welfare #theology

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today. ↗

— Malcolm X

#knowledge #tolerance #understanding #tolerance

I've got kids that enjoy stealing. I've got kids that don't think about stealing one way or the other, and I've got kids that just tolerate stealing because they know they've got nothing else to do. But nobody--and I mean nobody--has ever been hungry for it like this boy. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing. He...steals too much. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#locke-lamora #stealing #thieves #tolerance

He who must travel happily must travel light. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#common-sense #common-sense

It’s okay to be crazy and scared and brave at the same time! ↗

— Kelly Epperson

#crazy #fear #scared #bravery

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. ↗

— Caroline Gordon

#book #cannot #carpet #enter #magic

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#j-g-ballard #literature #science-fiction #writing #imagination

Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life. ↗

— Alecia Stone

#evolution #philosophy #thought #imagination

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#nature #wilderness #imagination

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#imagination #marriage #wedding #imagination