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Musician, Orthodox Priest, Coffee geek (not looking for on-line romance — astonished that some can't figure that out; Observe good boundaries.) Early Internet handle IXØYCtheFISH (A dreaded INFP with a side of T in that F)
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. — Mohandas Gandhi

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Science doesn’t care that it violates the I before E except after C rule.

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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. — Pres Theodore Roosevelt

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However much you exceed in wealth, so much so do you fall short in love: else long since you’d have taken care to be divorced from your money, if you had loved your neighbour. — St Basil the Great

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You had mentioned the burden to owners of gun stores that the expanded background checks would cause. I’m just wondering why the burden of my mother being gunned down in the hall of her elementary school isn’t as important as that? — daughter of Sandy Hook Principal killed in Newtown shooting

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Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the POWERFUL feed upon the POWERLESS. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape. — Pope Francis of Rome

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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. — Carl Jung

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It is paradoxical to say 'the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense;' for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. One of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the opening up of new and greater prospects. —Nikola Tesla

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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. — Indira Gandhi

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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. — Mohandas Gandhi

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Congress is not preparing to defend the people of the United States. It is planning to protect the capital of American speculators and investors. — Helen Keller

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If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you. — Dick Cavett

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Just for the record: EMPATHY is NOT a sin. — Reverend Steven Clark, an Orthodox priest.

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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. — Nelson Mandela

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Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. — C. S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. — Blaise Pascal

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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou

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You don’t become holy by fighting evil. Let evil be. Look towards Christ and that will save you. What makes a person saintly is love. — St. Porphyrios the Elder

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If any American soldier be so base as to injure any prisoner, I enjoin you to bring him severe punishment as the enormity of the crime requires. Should it be death, it will be in proportion to its guilt, for they bring shame, disgrace, and ruin to themselves and their country. — George Washington

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I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said. — Thuli Madonsela

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence; arrest for its breach is more so. — Mohandas Gandhi

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Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so workers have the money to buy the goods they produce. It's no mystery — the less poverty, the more commerce. — President José Mujica of Uruguay

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Feed him who is dying of hunger; if you have not fed him you have killed him. — St. Ambrose of Milan

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The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them. — Dietrich Bonhöffer (Life Together)

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The Truth is immobile motion and moving immobility. It is the unity of opposites, coincidentia oppositorum. — Pavel Florensky

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If God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him. — C S Lewis

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