Quotes about doe
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“But one no longer wonders when one realizes that in the higher classes there is an unerring instinct of what tends to maintain and of what tends to destroy the organization by virtue of which they enjoy their privileges. The fashionable lady had certainly not reasoned out that if there were no capitalists and no army to defend them, her husband would have no fortune, and she could not have her entertainments and her ball-dresses. And the artist certainly does not argue that he needs the capitalists and the troops to defend them, so that they may buy his pictures. But instinct, replacing reason in this instance, guides them unerringly. And it is precisely this instinct which leads all men, with few exceptions, to support all the religious, political, and economic institutions which are to their advantage.”

Leo Tolstoy The Kingdom of God Is Within You

Source: The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), Chapter XII, Conclusion—Repent Ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand

Men, Fashion, Support

“Verily there is magic in numbers! The sovereign multitude can out-legislate the Almighty, at least in their own conceit. But how many does it take? Just enough to make a nation. It did not take many thousands to make Texas a nation. Yet Texas, especially after the battle of San Jacinto, was perfectly competent to decree any of these things, and to make slavery, murder, &c. absolutely meritorious. Whether any smaller number could nullify the divine law, we leave to our great metaphysicians to determine.”

Adin Ballou (1803–1890) American minister

How Many Does It Take

Making love, Law

“One man must not kill. If he does it is murder. Two, ten, one hundred men, acting on their own responsibility, must not kill. If they do, it is still murder. But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is no murder. It is just, necessary, commendable and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent.”

Adin Ballou (1803–1890) American minister

How Many Does It Take

Men, People

“How many does it take to annul the commandments of God, and render that lawful, which HE has forbidden? How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness?”

Adin Ballou (1803–1890) American minister

How Many Does It Take

God, Law

“No one ever has to believe! The universe is, it does not require belief. Do you think it will stop existing if you do not believe? Do you think far galaxies will harbor resentment against you if you do not believe? Do you resent the ant who does not look up and admire you? Never!”

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

Source: Singer from the Sea (1999), Chapter 24, “People from the Sea” (p. 382)

Thinking, Universe

“Hail Mary, Jesus and Joseph
The great American flag
Is wrapped and dragged with explosives
Compulsive disorder, sons and daughters
Barricaded blocks and borders
Look what you taught us
It's murder on my street, your street, back streets
Wall Street, corporate offices, banks
Employees and bosses with homicidal thoughts
Donald Trump's in office, we lost Barack
And promised to never doubt him again
But is America honest or do we bask in sin?
Pass the gin, I mix it with American blood
Then bash him in, you crippin' or you married to blood?
I'll ask again—oops—accident
It's nasty when you set us up
Then roll the dice, then bet us up
You overnight the big rifles, then tell Fox to be scared of us
Gang members or terrorists, et cetera, et cetera
America’s a reflection of me
That's what a mirror does”

Kendrick Lamar (1987) American rapper, songwriter and record producer from California

Source: Song lyrics, DAMN. (2017), XXX

Daughters

“No amount of money can make one stay bought. Who does not freely choose to.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 24 (p. 540)

Money, Making love

“Just because I have forgotten so many old enemies does not mean they have forgotten me.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 9 (p. 196)

“Do you see? There exists a kind of knowledge that is without love. It does not purify the psyche in any way, but kills it, as it lacks the love that is the head, the body, and very root of all virtue.”

Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) Monk and archbishop

Source: Holy Hesychia: The Stillness that Knows God, p. 33

Love, Making love, Way, Knowledge

“The summit of evil, the crime most natural to the devil, pride, was born of knowledge. But if this is so, how can it be possible that all the passions result from ignorance? Does knowledge purify the psyche? Paul says: Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up”

Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) Monk and archbishop

1 Corinthians 8:1
Source: Holy Hesychia: The Stillness that Knows God, p. 33

Love, Making love, Nature, Knowledge

“We have to face the fact that we are the descendants of apelike ancestors. The truth, at first sight, is often ugly and repulsive to our personal feelings, but when it is the truth, its ultimate effects on us are always salutary. ...
... Man's brain does not stand as a thing apart; it is the culmination of an ascending series. There is no part of it and no function manifested by it that cannot be traced to humble beginnings lower in the animal scale. And what we postulate for man's brain we must in all justice apply to that of the ape, the dog, and all other beasts.”

Arthur Keith (1866–1955) anatomy, anthropology, geologist

[Chapter X, Living Philosophies, 149, 1931, Simon & Schuster]

Truth, Justice, Dogs, Feeling

“The function of punishment is to do good, to improve the universe, to add to the sum total of happiness. And punishment which does not do this is not justified. It is a crime in itself. The penal acts of society should be judged just as other acts of conduct are judged—by their utilities.”

J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)

Source: The New Ethics (1907), The Perils of Over-population, p. 152

Happiness, Universe

“Do the essences of proposition and of the truth determine themselves from out of the essence of the thing, or does the essence of the thing determine itself from out of the essence of the proposition? The question is posed as an either/or. However does this either/or itself suffice? Are the essence of the thing and the essence of the proposition only built as mirror images because both of them together determine themselves from out of the same but deeper lying root? However, what and where can be this common ground for the essence of the thing and of the proposition and of their origin? The unconditioned (Unbedingt)? We stated at the beginning that what conditions the essense of the thing in its thingness can no longer itself be thing and conditioned, it must be an unconditioned (Un-bedingtes). p. 47”

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) German philosopher

What Is A Thing? (1935, 1968)

Truth, Lying, Question

“Is fashion important? Is it important to talk about luxury? Does it really matter if you’re going to wear a red dress or not? Finally, I thought, Because of that woman, it is important. You make people dream. You make people think. You have to give them stories. You have to introduce fantasy. Fashion is how we bring them into the world today. That is my job.”

Alber Elbaz (1961–2021) Israeli fashion designer

Source: Interview, 2009, https://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/alber-elbaz

People, World, Making love, Dreams

“When the music does not dance, it changes disc.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale

Music, Change, Dance

“When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand."”

Frank Herbert book The Godmakers

The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
The Godmakers (1972)

Understanding

“To act in a language that I’m not fully immersed in, not fully fluent in, it does pose a bit of a challenge. It does have some good in it as well; there are pros and cons actually. But I do believe if there is a point that I could just be acting like I would in Japanese, but in English, I’m sure that would be so much fun and exciting. One major challenge is that I can’t just do an ad-lib, I can’t do it off the cuff, so really that’s the difference. But it is exciting.”

Yōsuke Kubozuka (1979) Japanese actor

Yosuke Kubozuka Talks New Crime Drama Giri/Haji https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2019/10/17/yosuke-kubozuka-giri-haji-interview/ (October 17, 2019)

“The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.”

Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist

Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and to know it well.
Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 175

Truth, Study

“There is no doubt that a dog is loyal. But does that mean we should emulate him? After all, he is loyal to people, not to other dogs.”

Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

People, Dogs

“Then, does everyone lives in fear?”

Steven Erikson book Forge of Darkness

The firelight barely reached the huge man standing beside Raskan, and the deep voice that came from that vague shape sounded loose, unguarded. 'I would say, most of the time, yes. Fear that our opinion might be chalanged. Fear that our way of seeing things might be called ignorant, self-serving, or indeed evil. Fear for our persons. Fear for our future, our fate. Our moment of death. Fear of failing in all that we set out to achieve. Fear of being forgotten.'
Forge of Darkness (2013)

Fear

“If a woman has chosen to gift a fetus with life, it does not necessarily follow that she is obligated to continue to support it with her body, especially if that support threatens the woman’s life. A woman’s body is her property, to do with as she wishes.”

Mary Ruwart (1949) American scientist and libertarian activist

Source: Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked, (2012), p. 141

Life, Support

“The basic premise of libertarianism is that each individual should be free to do as he or she pleases so long as he or she does not harm others.”

Mary Ruwart (1949) American scientist and libertarian activist

Source: Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression, (2003), p. 161

“I suspect that God is what you do, not what or who you believe in. When you do right, Jaxie, when you make good - well, then you are an instrument of God. Then you are joined to the divine, to the life force, to life itself. That's what I believe. That's what I hope for. And it's what I have missed. Think of it this way. When somebody does me a kindness, it enlarges me, adds to my life, you see? And not only mine - it adds to all life.”

Tim Winton (1960) Australian writer

Part III, Ch.3 - p.233
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

Life, God, Making love, Hope

“If somebody has the competency to do something, and the desire to do something, then nothing about their race, sex or sexual orientation should hold them back. But minimizing difference is not the same as pretending difference does not exist. To assume that sex, sexuality and skin colour mean nothing would be ridiculous. But to assume that they mean everything will be fatal.”

Douglas Murray (1979) British political commentator and far-right activist

The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019)

Sex

“If, in reading translations, you come across a haiku that does not convey to you any emotion at all, do not blame yourself or the poet. Blame it on the translator!”

Harold Gould Henderson (1889–1974) American art historian

Haiku in English'. Charles E. Tuttle 1967

Reading

“If, after proper study, a verse does not clearly convey the circumstances and/or the emotion involved, it is not a haiku.”

Harold Gould Henderson (1889–1974) American art historian

Haiku in English'. Charles E. Tuttle 1967

Study

“So imagine somebody who has Donald's charisma, but first rate management skills... actually knows how to be an executive and get things done, how to prioritize, how to follow-up, how to select people and hold them accountable, and who doesn't believe you should be able to question what he does.”

David Cay Johnston (1948) Investigative journalist and author

The Tyrant Next Time (November 7, 2019)

People, Imagination, Question

“Surrounded by hordes of people, busy with all sorts of secular matters, more and more shrewd about the ways of the world - such a person forgets himself, forgets his name divinely understood, does not dare to believe in himself, finds it too risky to be himself, far easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, part of the crowd.”

Sören Kierkegaard book The Sickness unto Death

Source: The Sickness unto Death

“Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end… The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth—that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.”

Joseph Campbell book Thou Art That

Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

“When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

Section 8 : Suffering and Consolation
Life and Destiny (1913)

Life, Beauty, Light, Sun

“An ideal is a port toward which we resolve to steer. We may not reach it. The mere fact that our goal is definitely located does not suffice to conduct us thither. But surely we shall thus stand a better chance of making port in the end than if we drift about aimlessly, the sport of winds and tides, without having decided in our own minds in what direction we ought to bend our course.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

Section 6 : Higher Life
Life and Destiny (1913)

Making love, Sport, Chance

“Of the origin of things we know nothing, and can know nothing. Perfection does not reveal itself to us as existent in the beginning; but as something that ought to be, something new which we are to help create. Somehow the secret of the universe is hidden in our breast. Somehow the destinies of the universe depend upon our exertions.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

Section 2 : Religion
Life and Destiny (1913)

Secret, Universe, Help, Dependency

“The system does not and cannot exist to satisfy human needs. Instead, it is human behavior that has to be modified to fit the needs of the system.”

Theodore Kaczynski book Industrial Society and Its Future

"Restriction on Freedom is Unavoidable in Industrial Society", paragraph 119
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

Behavior

“It’s important to note that both women and men stare, but men are more obvious. In Islam, men are taught to lower their gaze in front of a woman, but that does not happen often.”

Cynthia D. Ritchie

Cynthia D. Ritchie attributed in Who let the dogs out?, Pakistan Today . Com https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2020/06/21/who-let-the-dogs-out-3/ 2020 June, 21.

Women, Men

“A solicitor is a man who does worse things within the law than most crooks do outside it.”

Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 99)

Law

“The Lord exercises immense courtesy. He never imposes himself, never forces himself upon anyone. If I don’t let him in, he’s not going to force his way in. But that is not to say that someone who does good blindly, but who’s open to that imperative of goodness, isn’t vulnerable to a sort of propaedeutic of the spirit – an inward preparation of the heart that, whether in this world or the next, will bear fruit. Good is always good.”

Erik Varden (1974) Norwegian Monk and Prelate

Spirituality without platitudes https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/14404/spirituality-without-platitudes (September 12, 2018)

World, Way, Exercises, Heart

“In the hood, even if you're not a hardcore criminal, crime is in your life in some way or another. There are degrees of it. It's everyone from the mom buying some food that fell off the back of a truck to feed her family, all the way up to the gangs selling military-grade weapons and hardware. The hood made me realize that crime succeeds because crime does the one thing the government doesn't do: crime cares. Crime is grassroots. Crime looks for the young kids who need support and a lifting hand. Crime offers internship programs and summer jobs and opportunities for advancement. Crime gets involved in the community. Crime doesn't discriminate.”

Trevor Noah book Born a Crime

page 209
Born a Crime

Life, Family, Food, Way

“A man provides leadership.
A man provides direction, caution, and advice to others.
A man provides emotional and spiritual support.
A man provides stability and order.
A man provides companionship and good company.
A man provides identity.
A man provides an example.
All of these things require personal sacrifices of time, dedication, and effort. And from where does the strength and inspiration for that come? Or, in other words, what is worth living for, sacrificing for, and even dying for?”

William G. Boykin (1948) Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

Source: Man to Man: Rediscovering Masculinity in a Challenging World (2020), p. 5

Support, Effort, Time, Personality

“As long as Russia does not commit a hostile act, I believe that our stand, directed towards localization, must remain peaceful, too.”

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) German chancellor during World War I

Letter to the Kaiser (26 July 1914), quoted in Konrad H. Jarauschl, ‘The Illusion of Limited War: Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg's Calculated Risk, July 1914’, Central European History, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), p. 63

Hostility, Peace

“We must keep France in check through a cautious policy towards Russia and England. Naturally this does not please our chauvinists and is unpopular. But I see no alternative for Germany in the near future.”

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) German chancellor during World War I

Letter to Eisendecher (23 March 1913), quoted in Konrad H. Jarauschl, ‘The Illusion of Limited War: Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg's Calculated Risk, July 1914’, Central European History, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), p. 53

Nature, Future

“The support of the communities implies concrete assistance to young couples because it can offer them knowledge and an important wealth of experience, while encouraging them, above all, to open themselves to the presence of God in their lives, a presence that will help them to support their love in a long, faithful, and fruitful marriage. When the parish communities take this responsibility seriously the ministry of marriage preparation has the potential to be a life-giving joy for communities and families. Their love is contagious and does everyone good.”

Peter Doyle (bishop) (1944) Catholic bishop

Marriage Preparation in the light of “Amoris Laetitia”: The experience of the Office for Life, Family, and Marriage of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales http://www.laityfamilylife.va/content/laityfamilylife/en/news/2018/la-preparazione-al-matrimonio-alla-luce-di-amoris-laetitia--lesp.html (23 August 2018)

Love, Life, God, Marriage

“In this case the plaintiff does not come into Court with clean hands; he alleges his own turpitude, and is indictable for his fraud.”

Giles Rooke (1743–1808) British judge (1743-1808)

Farmer v. Russell (1798), 2 Bos. & Pull. 301.

Fraud

“By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.”

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer

Passion

“The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.”

Denis Waitley (1933) American writer

Personality, Inspirational

“No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

Wisdom, Teachers, Housing, Wise

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

Powerful

“Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

Life, Wisdom, Parting, Personality

“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Life

“All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.”

P. Chidambaram (1945) Indian politician

Wisdom

“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

Peace, Envy

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Motivational, Success, Life, For Men

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.”

Léon Blum (1872–1950) French politician

Fear

“If a man does his best, what else is there?”

George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general

“Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) English novelist and poet

Life

“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Reality

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

Attitude, Positive

“If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist

Business

“The ideal country does not exist, as progress would discontinue. A life without ideals would be individually miserable and politically useless.”

Egils Levits (1955) Latvian judge, jurist and politician

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Saeima, https://www.president.lv/en/article/address-he-president-latvia-mr-egils-levits-assuming-office-saeima

Life, Country

“Unlike utilitarianism, republican theory does not take people's existing preferences, whatever they may be, and try to satisfy them. It seeks instead to cultivate in citizens the qualities of character necessary to the common good of self-government. Insofar as certain dispositions, attachments, and commitments are essential to the realization of self-government, republican politics regards moral character as a public, not merely private, concern. In this sense, it attends to the identity, not just the interests, of its citizens.”

Michael J. Sandel (1953) American political philosopher

Chap. 2. Rights and the Neutral States
Democracy's Discontent (1996)

People, Sense

“History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 13 (p. 257)

History

“When you are out on a voyage, the tranquillity does not depend upon the ship, but upon the sea... It is not a policy, it is a yawn.”

David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

On the Conservative leader Bonar Law's election slogan, "Tranquillity"; speech in the Stoll Picture Theatre, Kingsway (4 November 1922), quoted in John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (1977), p. 34
Leader of the National Liberal Party

Dependency, Sea

“Diplomacy which does not rest on force is the most feeble and futile of weapons, and except for bare self-defence, we have not the force.”

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician

Letter to Lord Lytton (8 March 1877), quoted in David Steele, Lord Salisbury: A Political Biography (2001), p. 108
1870s

“Even an atheist has to believe that the concept, at least, of "God" does exist, whether or not that concept is true or useful or the best way to approach things.”

Guy Consolmagno (1952) American Jesuit, Catholic Priest, research astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory.

God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion, 7, 9780787994662, Consolmagno, Guy, 2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=s276jyAQ5hcC&pg=PA7,

God, Way

“The man is making preparations for a year, and does not know that he will die before evening. And I remembered God's second saying, "Learn what is not given to man."”

Leo Tolstoy book What Men Live By

'What dwells in man" I already knew. Now I learnt what is not given him. It is not given to man to know his own needs.
Source: What Men Live By (1881), Ch. XI

God, Learning

“The question to ask believers is this: “Does it really matter whether what you believe about God is true—or don’t you care?””

Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist

If it does matter, then you must justify your beliefs; if it doesn’t, then you must justify belief itself.
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 63

God, Question

“Why does God allow evil?”

Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist

quite simply, because if He punished it immediately I’m sure we would have been snuffed out the moment we were born. God says our very thoughts are an abomination to him. If He punished sin immediately, there would be no one left.
Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)

God, Evil

“And even when passions run high, elegance does not allow the real ties binding two people to be broken.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance

People, Passion

“In order to hear Love’s words, you must allow Love to approach. However, when it does draw near, we fear what it might say to us, because Love is free and is not ruled by our will or by what we do.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by

Love, Fear, Drawing

“In solitude, they will learn that saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Solitude

Solitude, Learning

“Defeat means that we lose a particular battle or war. Failure does not allow us to go on fighting.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), The Defeated Ones

War, Failure, Fight

“Just because the US is trying to suppress us does not mean we do not recognize it as a teacher. This will lead to isolation.”

Ren Zhengfei (1944) Chinese businessman

Speech at Huawei’s internal online forum (June 26, 2021)

Teachers

“He who does not wish to die cannot have wished to live.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXX: On conquering the conqueror

“He, who does not know the entries, the exits will fail him.”

Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism

[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, Wonderful Maxims and Arts, 2005]

“Everything is interesting, everything does connect, but anything don't work.”

Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist

The How and Why of Fitting Things Together

“Excessive jealousy is the alibi of someone who does not give enough value to the one who calls love.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) L'eccessiva gelosia è l'alibi di chi non dà abbastanza valore a colui che chiama amore.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Jealousy

“Who can not love, does not deserve prisoners.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Chi non riesce ad amare, non merita prigionieri.
Source: prevale.net

Love

“Being a music producer is a mission. It does not mean creating music to keep up with the times, but creating songs to convey emotions.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Essere un produttore musicale è una missione. Non vuol dire creare musica per stare al passo con i tempi, ma ideare canzoni per trasmettere emozioni.
Source: prevale.net

Music, Time

“When you also like what she does, what she says, how and what she thinks, any doubts vanish in the bud.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Quando di lei ti piace anche cosa fa, cosa dice, come e cosa pensa, qualsiasi dubbio svanisce sul nascere.
Source: prevale.net

Thinking

“Meritocracy is a concept that should exist in every workplace. Unfortunately, sometimes the inability of an executive reaches the point that it does not consider such an essential value for the development and the future of an entire generation of talents.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La meritocrazia è un concetto che dovrebbe esistere in ogni luogo di lavoro. Purtroppo, a volte l'incapacità di un dirigente arriva a tal punto da non considerare un valore così essenziale per lo sviluppo ed il futuro di un'intera generazione di talenti.
Source: prevale.net

Future

“When someone is moved by apostolic zeal, he always moves forward, with a very open spirit, with the desire of always doing good. The Lord then does the rest.”

Ruggero Franceschini (1939) Italian Roman Catholic archbishop

Bishop Padovese laid to rest in Italy https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/19989/bishop-padovese-laid-to-rest-in-italy (June 15, 2010)

“It is better to watch TV when it is switched off — that is, in the traditional way, but by pulling the plug out of the socket. One of the advantages of the alternative is electricity saving; in addition — the use of this method does not pose a threat to eyesight.”

Viktor Pinchuk (1969)

Press interview quotes <br class="br">Source: «A Little Journey into the Past» — South Capital. Crimea: newspaper. — 20.08.2021. — № 32 (1504), M. Kiseleva, ru, simadm.ru, 2021-09-02 http://simadm.ru/media/uploads/userfiles/2021/08/23/ЮС32.pdf,

Way

“When I drink a little, I sometimes recall my old days. Then I ask myself: 'What does Roh Moo-hyun mean in my life?'”

Roh Moo-hyun (1946–2009) 9th President of the Republic of Korea

He really defined my life. My life would have changed a lot if I didn't meet him. So he is my destiny. <br class="br">Moon Jae-in, current President of South Korea, "Moon Jae-in: South Korea's president with humble roots" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39860158 (26 April 2018)

Life, Drink

“Many have sacrificed their lives for our freedoms, and of course among the first and the founding freedoms of our country was that of religious liberty. Does a service member have to forfeit their constitutional right when they put on the uniform?”

Neal Buckon (1953) American Roman Catholic bishop

Military chaplains on front lines of religious freedom battle https://web.archive.org/web/20120801020548/http://www.catholicanchor.org/wordpress/archives/7463 (July 3, 2012)

Freedom, Country

“The past and present speak to the future. The future does not speak, but waits to see what we bring to it.”

Randolph Roque Calvo (1951) Catholic bishop

Bishop visits Virginia City to give homily at final St. Mary's Mass https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/2008/sep/08/bishop-visits-virginia-city-to-give-homily-at-fina/ (September 8, 2008)

Waiting, Past, Future

“I've always been very happy as a priest and I expect to be very happy in just kind of getting to know people. I think one of the most important things a priest does is that he has an opportunity to spend time with people and I'm looking forward to that.”

Daniel E. Flores (1961) Catholic bishop

Youngest bishop in the U.S. ready to “propose the mystery” of the Church to Detroit https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/8177/youngest-bishop-in-the-us-ready-to-propose-the-mystery-of-the-church-to-detroit (November 29, 2006)

Happiness, People, Thinking, Time

“If you have a problem and you're also successful, everyone does whatever they can to keep it going. I see that a lot.”

Mary Elizabeth Winstead (1984) American actress and singer

"Mary Elizabeth Winstead: from scream queen to alcoholic in Smashed" in The Guardian (29 November 2012) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/nov/29/mary-elizabeth-winstead-scream-queen-alcoholic-smashed

Problem, Success

“I have gone through ups and downs in my relatively short career. And one thing I’ve learned is a bit of a cliché, but everything does happen for a reason.”

Chloé Zhao (1982) Chinese film director, screenwriter, and film producer

Learning

“General relativity has changed our understanding of space and time. ...The spacetime of general relativity ...is likely to be just a classical approximation that loses its meaning in the quantum theory, for the same reason the trajectory of a particle does.”

Carlo Rovelli (1956) Italian physicist

"Forget time" (Aug, 2008)

Understanding, Change, Time

“Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.”

Richard Ebeling (1950) American economist

“Beware Democracy without Liberty” https://fee.org/articles/beware-democracy-without-liberty/, Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), (April 1, 2005)

Democracy, History

“A "hero" is any man who does his job. You a lot of times see headlines that are like, "hero tutor teaches after school", and you're like, yeah.”

John Mulaney (1982) American actor and comedian

New in Town (2012)

School, Time

“It does you good to be tenants. It reminds you of your own true position in the world.”

Tim Winton book Cloudstreet

Part 10, section 15 - p.416
Novels, Cloudstreet (1991)

World

“Being to reach out to your Goals and Future does not need to graduate in School, College, Training, or University. If you have a chance then just you need more practice, beliefs, discipline, and hard work.”

Ayuel Monykuch (1997) South Sudanese Entrepreneur

School, Universe, Chance, Future

“Any scientific research in the field of military science is worthless if military theory does not provide the function of foresight.”

Valery Gerasimov (1955) chief of the General Staff of the armed forces of the Russian Federation

"Ценность науки в предвидении" https://vpk-news.ru/articles/14632 (26 February 2013)

Science

“Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same.”

Carlo Rovelli book The Order of Time

Source: The Order of Time (2018), p. 11

Children, World, Home

“This planet itself is a living, breathing, incarnating entity. It does not incarnate in exactly the same way as we do, but does so in relation to the Plan of our Solar Logos.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

Source: The Great Approach (2001) p. 9

Way

“What does the Lord save us from? Sickness, problems, daily life concerns, difficult circumstances that each of us face! These all are part of the salvation because salvation is ultimate and comprehensive. It touches upon the inner self.”

Paul Marwan Tabet (1961)

Fifteenth letter of His Excellency Bishop Paul-Marwan Tabet To the Maronite Community of Canada Christmas https://www.maronitecalgary.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Christmas-Letter-2020-Bishop-Tabet.pdf (December 2020)

Life, Problem, Parting

“Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.”

Chigozie Obioma (1986) Nigerian writer

The fishermen (2015)

Peace, Change, Personality

“The country does not recognize a photojournalist as a journalist.”

Paolo Monti (1908–1982) Italian photographer

"Photojournalism and Film-making in Europe", in R. Smith (ed.), Photographic Communication, Hastings House, 1972, p. 350; quoted in D. Marisa and M. Moscoso, Fotoperiodismo https://web.archive.org/web/20030704150251/http://www.cge.udg.mx/revistaudg/rug22/rug22dossier5.html, in Revista Universidad de Guadalajara, n. 22, Winter 2001-2002.

Country

“Loving someone who doesn't love me back is like loving the wind, which is felt but cannot be seen. The lover does not love the feeling of getting love in return, but sacrifices himself for his happiness.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Original: What's your?

Love, Happiness, Feeling, Lovers

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