Majbritt Wilkens Quotes & Sayings

If we look for love in others without finding it in ourselves, we are like an underdeveloped country at the mercy of industrialised countries. Some may rescue us, providing the resources we lack and creating a tie of dependence, while others may teach us to produce what we need so that in a distant future we may become self-sufficient. Others may refuse to offer support, hating and even fighting us, hence urgently forcing us to find our own resources within. Perhaps one day someone will become aware that we are part of the same planet, and that all resources, including love, belongs to all. — Franco Santoro

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous. — Elbert Hubbard

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand. — Peter Norvig

But they were writers and writers suggest things just to see what happens next. — Abigail Thomas

During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in. — Barton Gellman

That's the only dog I know who can smell someone just thinking about food. — Charles M. Schulz

The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Namely, the very values that the American patriots claimed to be fighting for were incompatible with the disciplined culture required in a professional army. Republics were committed to a core principle of consent, while armies were the institutional embodiments of unthinking obedience and routinized coercion. The very idea of a "standing army" struck most members of the Continental Congress and the state legislatures as a highly dangerous threat to republican principles. — Joseph J. Ellis

True evil seek to destroy life but rather encourage it, urging it to grow more complex, more confident, more adventurous. — John Zande

It is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time. - Anne Shirley — L.M. Montgomery