Dubowski Obituary Quotes & Sayings

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong. — DeForest Soaries

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning. — Marshall Ganz

What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable & tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal & falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend. — George Washington

We wouldn't believe that the Germans, known as the enlightened world as 'bearers of culture,' were capable of planning and carrying out, in cold blood, without pity, the mass destruction of human beings by industrial means, as if they were bedbugs, flies, or other pests to be exterminated. — Joseph Bau

We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that's the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication. — Cyril Ponnamperuma

Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already. — Martin Luther

In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic analysis in the laboratory; I doubt if the sagacity of the researchers who have studied the question has overlooked the possibility. — Cheikh Anta Diop

Their lives are what hold meaning. Dying is simple. Living for something is much harder. — Mark T. Barnes

Juice fasting destroys your metabolic rate. I see a lot of women who are like, 'Oh, I lost seven pounds and then I gained 10.' That's not what detoxification is about. — Tracy Anderson

The depressed man lives in a depressed world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't. — Anne Rice

Unpleasant to feel that people were discussing you — Agatha Christie

The church isn't a circle of friends, but the family of God. The covenant of grace connects generations, rooting them in that worshiping community with the "cloud of witnesses" in heaven as well as here and now (Heb 12:1). — Michael S. Horton

I'm proud of myself, people love me and respect me, and I like me. I like who I am. — Ellen Greene