‘The elevator man smiled kindly at me and silently pressed the PH button after turning a key. He looked like a battered wife, dejected and sad, as though he coudn’t fight any longer and had just made peace wth his unhappiness.’
Category: Quote Of The Week
Quote Of The Week
‘When we’re kind to one person, it might actually be affecting around 16 people. Our behaviour had a three-stage knock-on, or ‘ripple’ effect, so when we help one person, that person then helps other people, who in turn helps others. The 3-Degree Ripple Rule.’
Dr. David Hamilton sourced from ‘Kindness, the little thing that matters most.’ by Jaime Thurston.
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‘I shall ask for brains instead of a heart, for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.’
‘I shall take the heart, for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.’
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‘Sometimes the most political act is being yourself.’
–George O’Dowd from ‘Take It Like A Man‘ The Autobiography Of Boy George, with Spencer Bright.
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‘Forgive as much as you can, forget a little and create a lot.’
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‘The quantity makes the quality doubtful.’
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‘Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievable way my attention deficiency disorder medicates itself.’
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‘The entire planet has become a whispering gallery, with a large portion of mankind engaged in making its living by keeping the rest of mankind under surveillance.’
–Marshall McLuhan from Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen.
A look back at international politics in the 1970’s.
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‘I stopped seeing it (writing) as some silly self indulgence – and began seeing it as a birthright.’
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‘You just made a permanent decision based on a temporary situation, now the devil’s got you.’
Unmasking The Devil – John Ramirez
