Candide Religious Intolerance Quotes & Sayings

The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God. — Oswald Chambers

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger. — David Letterman

He makes me feel like I'm something to reveal, something in which to revel. I'm the reward at the end of his magic trick, exposed beneath the velvet cape. — Anonymous

I preferred to read than talk with the others. — Hannah Kent

Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites? — George Carlin

Standing on the front porch was the kind of person who would probably elicit a question like 'You ain't from around here are ya, son?' from most people around there. — Jonathon Kane

When you do great things, Expect greater things. None of your works are done in vain. You will achieve what you set forth to accomplish! — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework. — Tom Peters

The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking. They find it easier to ascertain and adopt the thoughts of others than to think for themselves. — James F. Byrnes

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em
But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em — Eminem

This phenomenon suggests nineteenth-century German polymath Adolf Bastian's theory of Elementargedanke, literally "elementary thoughts of humankind," which so influenced physicists like Planck, Pauli, and Einstein, indeed many of those in the German school of physics, which was dominant in the early decades of the twentieth century leading up to World War II, as well as anthropologists like Franz Boas (the father of American anthropology) and physicians such as Jung. The idea of the collective unconscious (Jung's term for the nonlocal domain) was in the way he expressed it. It proposes a worldview in which all manifestations of consciousness, regardless of the complexity of their physical forms, are part of a network of life. A network in which each component both informs and influences as it is informed and influenced. It — Stephan A. Schwartz

it is this integration between the worlds of the patient and the clinician that carries the most promise. — Robert Wachter

Scientists believe that sharks are one of the oldest species of animals still in existence. Nature built them as perfect predators. Perfect killing machines. Nature hasn't had to revise or update them much. They were built right the first time.

Dolphins are very different. Scientists say that millions of years ago, dolphins were land animals. Sea mammals not very different from humans and other mammals. They evolved their way back into the ocean. Part of that evolution included learning to cope with predators, with killer whales and sharks.

I don't now what sea the Taxxon race evolved in. I don't know what natural predators they faced there. But they were not ready for this ocean. They were not ready to go one-on-one with the masters of Earth's deep seas. They were no match for dolphin or shark.

-Animorphs #4, The Visitor page 69 — K.A. Applegate

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write. — Gertrude Stein