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They thought we were stupid to do it, (hide Jews) of course; in fact, it was beyond their comprehension that we would risk so much for Jews.
The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.
...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.
If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual.
I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.
I've had to step up when I was Al Gore's campaign manager. I had to make significant changes as we moved from Washington, D.C. to Tennessee.
It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.
You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!
It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
It isn't that easy to live according to intuition, yet, it's so totally cool once we can get beyond the other voices and hear our intuition.
The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.
Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.
Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT: Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.
We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.
The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states it can speak about.
One of these days I'm going to say the wrong thing to the wrong mage, and I'll be spending the rest of my days searching for Mrs Right Toad.
People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time.
Many books have changed my life, but only one has the word 'life-changing' in the title: Marie Kondo's 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying.'
The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.
The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.
The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.
You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.
I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not.
Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.
Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.
Keep your eyes open, Fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I'll find you, and then you'll be crowfood.
..in the harshest days of leaf-bare clanmate turns upon clanmate danger lurks behind familiar faces and one more warrior may be lost forever
You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
We're a part of the insurrection, trying to turn Christianity upside down. We're an experimental church: God's research and development arm.
There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.
I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.
I really enjoy the immediacy of the 'knife and gun clubs,' as they're so callously called. Emergency is a great place to learn about people.
Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.