“Our culture has grown old, our churches are big and empty and the church bureaucracy rises up, our religious rites and the vestments we wear are pompous. The child sex scandals oblige us to undertake a journey of transformation.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much higher consideration.”
Jimmy Kimmel
“These people could have personally witnessed Obama being born out of an apple pie, in the middle of a Kansas wheat field, while Toby Keith sang the National Anthem – and they’d still think he was a Kenyan Muslim.”
Linus Pauling
“Do onto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.”
Nelson Mandela
“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Elizabeth Warren
“Corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters. That matters because we don’t run this country for corporations, we run it for people.”
Bill Clinton
“The Republican argument against President Obama’s re-election was pretty simple: we left him a total mess, he hasn’t cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
Jack Nicholson
“When it’s over for a woman, it’s over. You’re not getting an appeal.”
Calvin Coolidge
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”
Jean Michel Basquiat
“Believe it or not, I can actually draw.”
Colin Powell
“You can say what you like, but there is no voter fraud. How can it be widespread and undetected?”
Woody Allen
“Don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone you really love.”
Lemmy Kilmister
“Hawkwind was like Star Trek with long hair and drugs.”
Madeline Albright
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”
Rick Rubin
“There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.”
William Faulkner
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
Henry David Thoreau
“All good things are wild and free.”
Conan O’Brien
“If any of you are live tweeting this event, please use the hashtag #incapableoflivinginthemoment.”
Dalai Lama
“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”