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“Yahweh is Lord of all, even of economics. There is no hint here of a sacred law of supply and demand that operates independently of biblical ethics and the Lordship of Yahweh. The people of God should submit to God, and God demands economic justice among his people.”

Ron Sider (1939–2022) Canadian theologian

Source: Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity (2015), p. 75

God , People , Justice , Law

“By the time we married, I realized I could survive without him, and he realized he didn’t want to survive without me. I liked that. That’s a good attitude to enter a marriage with.”

Kathryn Crosby (1933) American actress

Kathryn Crosby Interview: On Life with Bing Crosby and PBS' "American Masters" Documentary Featuring the Entertainment Icon's Career https://smashinginterviews.com/interviews/actors/kathryn-crosby-interview-on-life-with-bing-crosby-and-pbs-american-masters-documentary-featuring-the-entertainment-icons-career (1 December 2014)

Time , Marriage

“I discovered two very important facts that day - Number one: The springs will pull the hair out of your legs, and Number two: the dog doesn't like to jump.”

Bill Engvall (1957) American comedian and actor

about trampolines
Source: Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For the Road (2006)

Dogs , Spring

“The true function of the priesthood, then, is above all one of knowledge and teaching, and this is why, as we said above, its proper attribute is wisdom.”

René Guénon (1886–1951) French metaphysician

Source: Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power (1929), p. 18

Knowledge , Wisdom

“[T]he supremacy of the Brahmins maintains doctrinal orthodoxy; the revolt of the Kshatriyas leads to heterodoxy; but with the domination of the lower castes comes intellectual night, and this is what in our day has become of a West that threatens to spread its own darkness over the entire world.”

René Guénon (1886–1951) French metaphysician

Source: Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power (1929), p. 30

Night , World

“It is worth noting that Protestantism suppresses the clergy, and though it claims to uphold the authority of the Bible, it in fact ruins it by 'free inquiry.'”

René Guénon (1886–1951) French metaphysician

Source: Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power (1929), p. 62

“The relationship between these two powers may be expressed by saying that the pope must keep for himself the golden key to the 'Celestial Paradise' and entrust to the emperor the silver key to the 'Terrestrial Paradise.'”

René Guénon (1886–1951) French metaphysician

Source: Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power (1929), p. 73

“Dante's corpus as a whole is in certain respects like a testament to the closing medieval age; it shows what the Western world would have been had it not broken from its tradition.”

René Guénon (1886–1951) French metaphysician

Source: Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power (1929), p. 77

Age , World

“From the social point of view as from all others, instability is as it were at its maximum, disorder and confusion are everywhere, and humanity has surely never been further from the 'Terrestrial Paradise' and from primordial spirituality.”

René Guénon (1886–1951) French metaphysician

Source: Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power (1929), pp. 77–78

“Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride or laziness of mind.”

Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science

Principle attributed to Popper by Ryszard Kapiscinski in New York Times obituary, 1995.
Misattributed
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/01/magazine/lives-well-lived-karl-popper-the-philosopher-as-giantslayer.html

Knowledge

“If you were there behind every family's closed doors, everyone's a little wacko. Chances are that your family is no weirder than the next family, or than the other girl at school's family. Everyone can be quirky at times, and I embrace that, personally.”

Meaghan Martin (1992) American musician and actor

Seventeen Chats With Meaghan Martin From 10 Things I Hate About You! https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/movies-tv/reviews/a5306/meaghan-martin-talks-camp-rock-2/ (July 27, 2009)

School , Family , Chance , Time

“The better you know your character, the more naturally it comes. But at the same time I don’t know that I ever want it to be easy, because the minute it gets easy I think I get too comfortable. And so I always am trying to search for what I can do to make my performance better”

Meaghan Martin (1992) American musician and actor

Interview: Meaghan Martin and Nick Braun from ABC Family’s ’10 Things I Hate About You’ https://www.fanbolt.com/5659/interview-meaghan-martin-and-nick-braun-from-abc-familys-10-things-i-hate-about-you/ (March 26, 2010)

Time , Search , Nature , Thinking

“Laughter is a basic human need, along with love, and food, and an HBO subscription.”

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961) American actress, comedian and producer

Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech (2018)

Food , Love , Laughter

“Everybody needs laughs, so the fact that I've had the opportunity to make people laugh for a living is one of the many blessings that I have received in my life.”

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961) American actress, comedian and producer

Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech (2018)

People , Life

“God does not want us to be slaves, but sons and daughters. He does not want to make decisions for us, or oppress us with a sacral power, exercised in a world governed by religious laws. No! He created us to be free, and he asks us to be mature and responsible persons in life and in society.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

2020s, 2022

God , Personality , Daughters , World

“God seems to have disappeared from the horizon, and his word no longer seems a compass guiding our lives, our basic decisions, our human and social relationships.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

2020s, 2022

God , Decision

“We must begin with ourselves: bishops and priests, who should not feel themselves superior to our brothers and sisters in the people of God. Pastoral workers, who should not understand service as power.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

2020s, 2022
Source: "God does not want ‘a world governed by religious laws,’ pope tells Canadian clergy" https://religionnews.com/2022/07/28/god-does-not-want-a-world-governed-by-religious-laws-pope-tells-canadian-clergy/, 28 July 2022

God , Understanding , People , Feeling

“No government has yet been able to repeal natural laws, though they keep trying.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Farnham's Freehold

Source: Farnham's Freehold (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 35)

Law , Nature

“It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person’s behavior. I spoke of myself as ‘responsible’ for this group, that was verbal shorthand. The most I can do—or you, or any leader—is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Farnham's Freehold

Source: Farnham's Freehold (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 75)

Personality , Behavior

“You know that color does not matter to me. I want to know other things about a man. Is his word good? Does he meet his obligations? Does he do honest work? Is he brave? Will he stand up and be counted?”

Robert A. Heinlein book Farnham's Freehold

Source: Farnham's Freehold (1964), Chapter 7 (p. 115)

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