Random Wisdom for Today

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Seek for your God within yourself, not in persons of bygone ages.

~ R.W.Emerson

 

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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

~ Carl Sagan

 

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Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer."

~ anonymous

 

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The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.

~ Thomas Paine

 

[just4today]

Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
Theres still time to change the road youre on

-Plant/Page

 

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Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the attendant of truth. Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the servant of discovery. A belief which may not be questioned binds us to error, for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every belief. Doubt is the touchstone of truth; it is an acid which eats away the false. Let no one fear for the truth, that doubt may consume it; for doubt is the testing of belief. The truth stands boldly and unafraid; it is not shaken by the testing.

~ Robert T. Weston

 

[Barbossa]

"Insecurity is the best security." - Bono

 

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Some beliefs are like walled gardens. They encourage exclusiveness, and the feeling of being especially privileged.

Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way into wider and deeper sympathies.

Some beliefs are divisive, separating the saved from the unsaved, friends from enemies.

Other beliefs are bonds in a world community, where sincere differences beautify the pattern.

Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world.

Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.

~ Sophia Lyon Fahs

 

[Cindyluwho]

"Some people are like slinkies. They're pretty useless but fun to watch when you push them down the stairs."

 

[KAMLEM]

Since her face is plastered all over the DIS, here's one from Brooke Shields:

"If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."

 

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Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, "He's a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists." This is not the way we should be doing it in America.

~ Colin Powell

 

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I have no sympathy with the bigotry and ignorance which make transient and partial and puerile distinctions between one man's faith or form of faith and another's

~ Henry David Thoreau

 

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We know from our nation's painful history that separate is never equal.

~ The Rev. William Sinkford

 

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I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

~ Paul McCartney

 

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I believe the universe is one being; all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole ... The whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine. It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward toward this one God; rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions- the world of spirits.

~ Robinson Jeffers

 

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My faith in the future rests squarely on the belief that man, if he doesn't first destroy himself, will find new answers in the universe, new technologies, new disciplines, which will contribute to a vastly different and better world in the twenty-first century.

~ Barry Goldwater

 

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I defy the tyranny of precedent.

~ Clara Barton

 

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[eliza61]

~ Barry Goldwater

This is probably my favorite so far, if we can only get past that pesky
"destroy ourselves first" part.

Happy Monday

 

[Master Mason]

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclution of religious principle.

~George Washington