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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#hand #how #left #long #right

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#coming #freedom #little #mean #more

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#command #crisis #man #more #than

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#knowledge #larger #longer #wonder

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#appetites #automatic #bring #control #debating

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#however #lie #may #opposite #truth

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#been #born #called #capacity #christmas

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#congregation #his #measured #minister #mortgage

Wisdom begins in wonder. ↗

— Socrates

#begins #wonder

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. ↗

— Socrates

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