Captive Phrases

professor Lawrence Lessig. But, he adds, "There's a difference between what you can legally do, what you can technically do, and what you ought to do.

so much more than her marital prospects.

 empower communities, not corporations.

When the bullying goes beyond meanness, criminal accountability is the ultimate consequence

While correlation is not necessarily causation

 I'm one of the actors, not one of the observers."

the sleeping souls of your ancestors are calling out to you

pithy aperçus

we saved her from the river and she ended up in the sea.

impulse for renewal

his life was a series of lapses."

reductio ad absurdum

an epic of self-delusion

progress-resistant cultural influences

ambivalence, doubt and confusion are essential to forming dynamic new hybrid selves

hidden brain

anger is born of impotence, a frustration that can melt away just by doing something about it.

the inchoate chafing at any manifestation of authority

Martin Luther King, Jr

Quote from Rev. King:

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Quote

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."

-Goethe
(1749-1832)

Quote

When obstacles arise,
you change your direction to reach your goal;
you do not change your decision to get there."
~ Zig Ziglar

Quote

Be Impeccable With Your Words
Don't Take Anything Personally
Don't Make Assumptions
Always Do Your Best

Quotes

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ~ Louis D. Brandeis

Quotes, Shaw said,

George Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the Devil says, "Aw crap, she's up!

Our children

Frederick Douglass: “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

Quote: Children by Chesteron

G. K. Chesterton

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

Quote: Rumi on balance

Rumi said, "Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."

Jonson Quote

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
~Ben Jonson

Winston Churchill Quote

“The further backward you can look, the further forward you can see.”

Quote

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. -- Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead)

Quotes

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the door to the mysteries of the universe.
Daisaku Ikeda

Jane said

I have a memory palace. It has to be big.

Quotation

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the door to the mysteries of the universe.

Daisaku Ikeda

Quotes

“Courage is one step ahead of fear.” ~ Coleman Young

Dreams, quote

“Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.”

Dale E. Turner quote

Quotes

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Charlie Chaplin
British actor, director, & screenwriter (1889 - 1977)