Jcz 2020 Quotes & Sayings

There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street. — Annie Dillard

Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. — Tom Ford

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt. — Henry Ford

The one who listens attentively to the Word of God and truly prays, always asks the Lord: what is your will for me? — Pope Francis

Maybe if we hug a hundred strangers, he said, something will change. — Kyung-Sook Shin

Illegal immigrants are people that have very little education. They are mostly people who are very poor. They arrive needing government assistance from the get-go, and the Democrat Party is right there to provide it, while telling them that the Republican Party wants to kick 'em out. — Rush Limbaugh

Rebecca Eaton has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more than that, she is one of the most fun people I know. — Andrew Davies

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it. — Tony Blair

Making music is like being the president: You can't tell people you're going to make health care free to get them behind you, but when you get that role, you don't do it. — Tyga

Imagine a world where everyone looked the same, spoke the same, ate the same and had one single belief system. Boring right? What makes this world colorful, interesting and fun is the diversity! — Tina Sequeira

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best. — Joe Abercrombie

Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and other curious nooks and crannies of ancient worlds and modern times. — Ivars Peterson

The late Alan Gregg pointed out that human population growth within the ecosystem was closely analogous to the growth of malignant tumor cells within an organism: that man was acting like a cancer on the biosphere. The multiplication of human numbers certainly seems wild and uncontrolled ... Four million a month - the equivalent of the population of Chicago ... We seem to be doing all right at the moment; but if you could ask cancer cells, I suspect they would think they were doing fine. But when the organism dies, so do they; and for our own, selfish, practical ... reasons, I think we should be careful about how we influence the rest of the ecosystem. — Marston Bates

There is no greater illusion than fear,
no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself,
no greater misfortune than having an enemy. — Lao-Tzu

At first, I was dubious that my mother would agree that writing letters to prisoners was morally instructive, but Mr. Peterson, who was extremely crazy, insisted that it was. He told me that most of the prisoners we'd be writing to shouldn't have been put in prison in the first place. They were good people who'd been locked away and denied their most basic human rights. They weren't allowed to act according to their consciences or even to express their opinions without fear of persecution and physical reprisals - although Mr. Peterson doubted very much that I could imagine what that was like. I told Mr. Peterson that since I went to secondary school, I thought that I could imagine it fairly well. — Gavin Extence