#ox

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize ↗

— Mohammed Ali

#confidence #victory #dreams

God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions. ↗

— Ronald J. Sider

#confession #creeds #god-s-word #neglect #oppression

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. ↗

— John Milton

#intoxication #dreams

What a hungry fox constantly dreams of is a chicken! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#dreams

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#prejudice #education

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious. ↗

— Walker Percy

#education #obnoxious #education

The word ‘equinox’ simply means ‘of equal length’ and refers to the twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness at this point in the year. It was originally thought to stem from two Latin words aequus meaning equal and nox meaning night. The word ‘Vernal’, as this equinox is often called, is derived from the Latin word vernus meaning ‘of spring’. ↗

— Carole Carlton

#carole-carlton #equinox #imbolc #irish-celts #lughnasadh

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement. ↗

— Mark Twain

#experience

Boxing’s not that straightforward,” said Eldric. “You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually. ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#experiences #practice #experience

Do you think you're special, Perry?" he asked seriously. I winced. "A little bit. Maybe more in the Special Olympics kind of way." He smiled and turned his eyes to the road. "You are special, kiddo. ...And not entirely in the Special Olympics kind of way. ↗

— Karine Halle Red Fox

#experiment-in-terror #karine-halle #perry-palomino #red-fox #experience