Duselheim Quotes & Sayings

[Farmer] went to dozens of American and Canadian universities and colleges, preaching his O for the P [Preferential Option for the Poor] gospel, and to South Africa, where he debated a World Bank official at an international AIDS conference. "Africans must learn to curb their sexual appetites," the banker remarked, and Farmer replied, "I want to talk about other bankers, not the World Bankers, but bankers in general. My suspicion is they're not getting a lot of sex, because they spend a lot of time screwing the poor. — Tracy Kidder

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The moment we successfully learn to 'swiftly acknowledge, accept, correct and learn' from our mistakes, is the moment when to we will truly begin to SUCCEED! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose — Richard Leider

I am not my self, I am the result of all my ancestors. — Santiago Martinez Delgado

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure. — Natasha Trethewey

The sky drops silver threads of sleet. — Anthony Doerr

Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there. — Michelangelo

Attitude is a state of mind that results in an action taken or an
emotion displayed. Attitude, in the end, is a motivator or that which
generates or reflects motives. — Reid A. Ashbaucher

Dreams alone with no acts toward achieving them are useless: no dreams at all is a condition of the pathetic. — Jonas Samuelle

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best. — Orison Swett Marden

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women. — Moby

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings? — D.H. Lawrence

I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that I would have liked to have read as a child. So whenever I write, I imagine myself, as a youth, reading my books, being thrilled by the incredible advances being made in physics and science. — Michio Kaku