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Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God. ↗

— Billy Graham

#anyone #avoid #except #god #offending

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#gospel #gospels #like #reject #you

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#ignorant #lazy #more #none #perhaps

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. ↗

— Paul Auster

#ground #put #sky #touched #until

The champagne had been donated by one of Gus's doctors - Gus being the kind of person who inspires doctors to give their best bottles of champagne to children. ↗

— John Green

#memories #sadness #inspirational

We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy “one word” Zen. When asked “What is the highest teaching of the Buddha?” he replied: “An appropriate statement.” On another occasion, he answered: “Cake.” I admired his directness. ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

#humour #inspirational #zen #inspirational

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation. ↗

— Alan Autry

#courage #decisions #generation #leadership #make

If the gooseberry said: 'I haven't the heart to be a real proper gooseberry because if everyone were a gooseberry the world wouldn't continue to exist' this would be a stupid argument and the world would be deprived of a useful fruit. If you are called upon to be a 'gooseberry' in all the senses--pleasant or ludicrous--of the word, you should be one with all your heart and soul, without a backward glance. ↗

— Pierre Ceresole

#inspirational #yourself #inspirational

There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#aim #aims #being #fighting #final

I suddenly remembered that Murray Gell-Mann and I were supposed to give talks at that conference on the present situation of high-energy physics. My talk was set for the plenary session, so I asked the guide, "Sir, where would the talks for the plenary session of the conference be?" "Back in that room that we just came through." "Oh!" I said in delight. "Then I'm gonna give a speech in that room!" The guide looked down at my dirty pants and my sloppy shirt. I realized how dumb that remark must have sounded to him, but it was genuine surprise and delight on my part. We went along a little bit farther, and the guide said, "This is a lounge for the various delegates, where they often hold informal discussions." They were some small, square windows in the doors to the lounge that you could look through, so people looked in. There were a few men sitting there talking. I looked through the windows and saw Igor Tamm, a physicist from Russia that I know. "Oh!" I said. "I know that guy!" and I started through the door. The guide screamed, "No, no! Don't go in there!" By this time he was sure he had a maniac on his hands, but he couldn't chase me because he wasn't allowed to o through the door himself! ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#humor-inspirational #humourous-situations #insanity #judgemental #personal-privacy