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Edwin Hubbel Chapin : Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust. # Vision # Love # Life and Living

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Samuel Johnson : " The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. " # Vision # Love # Life and Living

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Betty Smith : " Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. " # Vision # Love # Life and Living

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Simone Weil : " There is no area in our minds reserved for superstition, such as the Greeks had in their mythology; and superstition, under cover of an abstract vocabulary, has revenged itself by invading the entire realm of thought. Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought. In every sphere, we seem to have lost the very elements of intelligence: the ideas of limit, measure, degree, proportion, relation, comparison, contingency, interdependence, interrelation of means and ends. To keep to the social level, our political universe is peopled exclusively by myths and monsters; all it contains is absolutes and abstract entities. This is illustrated by all the words of our political and social vocabulary: nation, security, capitalism, communism, fascism, order, authority, property, democracy. We never use them in phrases such as: There is democracy to the extent that... or: There is capitalism in so far as... The use of expressions like "to the extent that" is beyond our intellectual capacity. Each of these words seems to represent for us an absolute reality, unaffected by conditions, or an absolute objective, independent of methods of action, or an absolute evil; and at the same time we make all these words mean, successively or simultaneously, anything whatsoever. Our lives are lived, in actual fact, among changing, varying realities, subject to the casual play of external necessities, and modifying themselves according to specific conditions within specific limits; and yet we act and strive and sacrifice ourselves and others by reference to fixed and isolated abstractions which cannot possibly be related either to one another or to any concrete facts. In this so-called age of technicians, the only battles we know how to fight are battles against windmills. [p.222] " # Vision # Love # Life and Living

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Ben Stein : " And for me, it's pretty clear-cut that until we learn some better explanation for how life began, there is a God who always existed and created the heavens and the earth. And until somebody gives me a better explanation, I'll go for it. And it doesn't scare me at all when scientists say, "Oh, but that can't be proved," because neither can any of the Darwinian hypotheses about how life began be proved. Anyway, I couldn't give a [profanity] whether a person calls himself a scientist. It doesn't earn any extra respect from me, because it's not as if science has covered itself with glory, morally, in my time. Scientists were the people in Germany telling Hitler that it was a good idea to kill all the Jews. Scientists were telling Stalin it was a good idea to wipe out the middle-class peasants. Scientists were telling Mao Tse-Tung it was fine to kill 50 million people in order to further the revolution. " # Vision # Love # Life and Living

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Source Unknown : " To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. " # Vision # Love # Life and Living

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Theodore Roosevelt : " Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. " # Vision # Love # Life and Living

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W E B DuBois : " It was a bright September afternoon, and the streets of New York were brilliant with moving men.... He was pushed toward the ticket-office with the others, and felt in his pocket for the new five-dollar bill he had hoarded.... When at last he realized that he had paid five dollars to enter he knew not what, he stood stock-still amazed.... John... sat in a half-maze minding the scene about him; the delicate beauty of the hall, the faint perfume, the moving myriad of men, the rich clothing and low hum of talking seemed all a part of a world so different from his, so strangely more beautiful than anything he had known, that he sat in dreamland, and started when, after a hush, rose high and clear the music of Lohengrin's swan. The infinite beauty of the wail lingered and swept through every muscle of his frame, and put it all a-tune. He closed his eyes and grasped the elbows of the chair, touching unwittingly the lady's arm. And the lady drew away. A deep longing swelled in all his heart to rise with that clear music out of the dirt and dust of that low life that held him prisoned and befouled. If he could only live up in the free air where birds sang and setting suns had no touch of blood! Who had called him to be the slave and butt of all?... If he but had some master-work, some life-service, hard, aye, bitter hard, but without the cringing and sickening servility.... When at last a soft sorrow crept across the violins, there came to him the vision of a far-off home — the great eyes of his sister, and the dark drawn face of his mother.... It left John sitting so silent and rapt that he did not for some time notice the usher tapping him lightly on the shoulder and saying politely, 'will you step this way please sir?'... The manager was sorry, very very sorry — but he explained that some mistake had been made in selling the gentleman a seat already disposed of; he would refund the money, of course... before he had finished John was gone, walking hurriedly across the square... and as he passed the park he buttoned his coat and said, 'John Jones you're a natural-born fool.' Then he went to his lodgings and wrote a letter, and tore it up; he wrote another, and threw it in the fire.... " # Vision # Love # Life and Living

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Charles M Schwab : " I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man. " # Vision # Love # Life and Living

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David Armistead : " Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware. " # Vision # Love # Life and Living

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John Peel : " I think I was a handy safety valve for some time. If people called up to complain about the safe and predictable nature of the station's playlist, someone could always tell them, "Well you can always listen to John Peel. He plays strange discs." " # Vision # Love # Life and Living

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin: " Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." # Action # Death and Dying # Love

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin: " Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury." # Forgiveness # Revenge # Courage

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin: " An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven." # Age and Aging # Heaven # Christians and Christianity

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin: " Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite." # Endurance # Alliances # Love

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin: " The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it." # Happiness # Freedom # Power

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin: " The essence of justice is mercy." # Justice

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin: " Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool." # Appearance # Laughter # Peace

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin: " Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening." # Motivation # Love # Death and Dying

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin: " The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor." # Opportunity

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin: " Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy." # Ostentation

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