If we know we are going to face a final exam of one question and we are told by the examiner what that question is to be, is it not reasonable to suppose that one question would gather to itself the interest and the energies and the
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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” —J. Krishnamurti”
― Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
― Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
“don’t sit on your patio in the high noon of your tranquility and make light of the huts that people build in the midnight of their desperation.”
― The Collected Sermons of Fred B. Craddock
― The Collected Sermons of Fred B. Craddock
“If in reading the Bible you find justification for abusing, humiliating, disgracing, harming, or hurting, especially when it makes you feel better about yourself, you are absolutely wrong.”
― The Collected Sermons of Fred B. Craddock
― The Collected Sermons of Fred B. Craddock

“Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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