I enjoy quotes: Below are a few with my comments:
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand – Kurt Vonnegut
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I smiled when I read this. Taken on face value it is a fun quote. However, the problem I have with a statement like this one is that it clouds the situation with nothing more than clever words.. We do well not to use rhetoric to deflect, bury, or otherwise undermine truth.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. – Walter Bagehot
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This is true for many of us. How easy it is to self compromise in the name of peace. Of course others self aggrandize in the name of poor self esteem compensation. One of each type, living under the same roof, is called codependency. Confrontation without conflict is a laudable, but not easily attainable goal. Wise, thoughtful, sensitive confrontation, though it may feel like you are traversing a mine field, can bring about splendid transformation.
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You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty. – Cecil Baxter
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There is a good point to this. However, it is fortunately not always true. We can purify ourselves and our planet through transformation from one state of being to another, not through transportation of dirt from one place to another.
