Alan Keyes (1950) American politician
Iowa straw poll speech, August 14, 1999. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/99_08_14strawpoll.htm. <br class="br">1999
Alan Keyes (1950) American politician
Iowa straw poll speech, August 14, 1999. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/99_08_14strawpoll.htm. <br class="br">1999
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Variant: You are educated when you have the ability to hear almost anything without losing your temper, or your self-confidence.
“Without being able to be armed you cannot be a real citizen.”
What About This 2nd Amendment? (23 March 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebybvhybt5w
Jim Gaffigan (1966) comedian, actor, author
On David Letterman — interview in Joanne Weintraub (November 21, 2000) "Mr. Midwest - Jim Gaffigan tries to hold his own", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, p. 1.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
6th Public Talk, Saanen (28 July 1970) 'The Mechanical Activity of Thought" http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/the-impossible-question/1970-07-28-jiddu-krishnamurti-the-impossible-question-the-mechanical-activity-of-thought in The Impossible Question (1972) http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=9&chid=57009, Part I, Ch. 6], p. 63 J.Krishnamurti Online, Serial No. 330 <br class="br">1970s <br class="br">Context: What does it mean to be compassionate? Not merely verbally, but actually to be compassionate? Is compassion a matter of habit, of thought, a matter of the mechanical repetition of being kind, polite, gentle, tender? Can the mind which is caught in the activity of thought with its conditioning, its mechanical repetition, be compassionate at all? It can talk about it, it can encourage social reform, be kind to the poor heathen and so on; but is that compassion? When thought dictates, when thought is active, can there be any place for compassion? Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
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You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.”
David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
Steve Turner (1949) British writer
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 193
“Tis the hardest thing in the world to be a good Thinker, without being a strong Self-Examiner.”
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713) English politician and Earl
Vol. 1, p. 92; "Soliloquy: or Advice to an Author".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)
Simon Sinek (1973) British/American author and motivational speaker
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action