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Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#confidence #destiny #drive #feeling #gets

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of "getting along." ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#any #build #create #different #different way

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#against #ancestors #because #becomes #boots

I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#get #having #i #learned #life

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#charles #complication #consciousness #created #darwin

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#books #conceive #down #galileo #god

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#among #christian #christian church #church #encouraged

And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission? ↗

— John Spratt

#direction #emerged #era #every #finally

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget. ↗

— John Spratt

#big #budget #care #category #discretionary

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner. ↗

— John Spratt

#billion #cost #counting #decided #far