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Cesar Chavez (1927–1993) American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist
The Mexican-American and the Church (1968)
Context: What do we want the Church to do? We don't ask for more cathedrals. We don't ask for bigger churches of fine gifts. We ask for its presence with us, beside us, as Christ among us. We ask the Church to sacrifice with the people for social change, for justice, and for love of brother. We don't ask for words. We ask for deeds. We don't ask for paternalism. We ask for servanthood.
“An option hides where we don't want it to hide.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 184
“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.”
E.M. Forster book A Passage to India
Variant: Adventures do occur, but not punctually. Life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate.
Source: A Passage to India
“I want to ask America: What does crow taste like? Because y'all are eating it.”
Shannon Sharpe (1968) Player of American football
To doubters of the Baltimore Ravens' chances to defeat the Oakland Raiders in the 2000 AFC Championship Game Cimini, Rich. "Defense All The Rave Shackles Raiders In Super Showing," Daily News (New York City), Monday, January 15, 2001. http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2001/01/15/2001-01-15_defense_all_the_rave_shackle.html
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) German philosopher
Source: Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964), p. 102 http://books.google.com/books?id=7RP-TggufEEC&pg=PA102
Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer
" Knowledge and Information http://naggum.no/erik/knowledge.html".
