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The good news is that there is a guide, a kind of medical advocate, an inner compass—and it resides within each of us.
~ Richard Rohr
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.
~ Richard Siken
We need a place, just for us. It could be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it. It might be a whole secret country, and you and I could be the rulers of it.
~ Katherine Paterson
each of us harboured the desire to make our own small contribution to the creation of a better world.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
And we are all surrounded by that skin, and he's trying to show us some beauty in this condition.
~ Ken Kesey
I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.
~ Chris Paine
It is clear that whatever language of democracy [Barack] Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.
~ Judith Butler
It is clear that whatever language of democracy Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.
~ Judith Butler
I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
~ Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart
Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'
~ John Ortberg
Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.
~ R. A. Torrey
The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year.
~ Woody Allen
Love performs its natural miracle, and they become part of us; it is a dismemberment to cast them off. Our own blood flows out after them when they go.
~ Wyndham Lewis
Chinese troops did not engage the US forces in ground warfare in the South but provided military assistance to the NVA and NLF in air defense, combat engineering, railroad and highway construction and maintenance, and communication network establishment in the North; and finance and logistics in the South.
~ Xiaobing Li
Until now we've discriminated against each other according to race, religion, age, gender and just about every other differentiation imaginable. Look around you tonight and you'll see that those differences are gone. Now, to put things as simplistically as possible, there is just "us and "them", and it is impossible for us to coexist. We have no alternative but to fight, and we must keep fighting until we have wiped them out.
~ David Moody
We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us
~ Dean Cavanagh
First, I have not minded so much leaving the Garden because God, blessed be his holy name, has never abandoned us.
~ Katerina Whitley
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
~ Booker T. Washington
I'm not concerned about General Burnside right now. I'm much more concerned with how far Lee will let us go before he does something.
~ Jeff Shaara
But God has set no traps for us. Quite the contrary. He has summoned us to the only true and full freedom.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
try to help us; you the past led us here . . .
~ Alice Notley
A naked lunch is natural to us, we eat reality sandwiches But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.
~ Allen Grossman