In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
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For my Brazilian Friends struggling for a new life in a better world.
Caetano Veloso → Sampa
Something happens in my heart
When I cross Ipiranga (Avenue) and São João Avenue
As I got here I didn't understand anything
Not the concrete poetry of your street corners
Not the discreet inelegance of your girls
I didn't know Rita Lee (a singer from São Paulo)
Your most complete translation
Something happens in my heart
Only when it crosses Ipiranga (Avenue) and São João Avenue
When we were face to face I didn't saw my face
I called what I saw bad taste, I called bad taste to bad taste
Because Narcissus thinks is ugly what is not a mirror
And what is not so old scares the mind
Nothing from before when you are not a mutant
And you were a difficult beginning
I get away of what I don't know
And who sell a dream of a different happy city
learn fast to call you reality
Because your are the reverse of the back of the back of the reverse
From the people oppressed in lines, in streets, in towns
Of the power of the money that builds and destroy beautiful things
From the ugly smoke that rises and hide the stars
I see your poets raise from the fields and spaces
Your forest workshops, your gods of the rain
Pan-Americas from Africa utopias, samba grave.
The newest of Zumbi's quilombo (I will post about Zumbi soon)
And the new baianos wandering in your drizzle
And the new baianos can enjoy you on a good one.
I have some doubts sometimes.
I have them for me, because I choose a different religion one day.
Would Jesus love me?
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells
On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
Erma Bombeck
I need to go to my vacation place fast (Algarve) to get there and have more time to do absolutely nothing.
Crazy Duke
After a war most of the men can finally understand that peace is so precious, more than gold or diamonds. We should learn to avoid the war and learn from our ancestors or from our history.
Can we start today?
Ricardo Ferreira
Duke !!!
Great one man !
You are a big friend and on this moment of my life that I am very unsure of myself and the really meaning of my English words you have been the assure I need, Thanks DBJ for your words, they were very important to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrBackJack
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We always think that being poor is having no money.
The real poverty, can be or not, inside of every man.
And so is the fortune of being.
Happy to be what we are in our soul.
From whom we cant lie about.
Ricardo Ferreira
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Find your way back home, let all the fears and the past go.
You will find that in here you are not alone.
Duke
”If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
George Washington
I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
Nelson Mandela
Congratulations for your 95th birthday Nelson Mandela.
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I love and admire you because you have always followed you heart
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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
Eliot Spitzer
I would like to understand those that talk about the sacred life when we talk about abortion and then vote for death penalty.
Is it the same life we are talking or life is more sacred if we haven't born yet?
Both are sacred to me and every man or woman to decide about others life should seat on the accused chair on a life and death trial before.
Maybe they could understand better their responsibility with their own life on the line.
Ricardo Ferreira
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
To be educated is to understand, what you know and what you don't know.
Ricardo Ferreira
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. ”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke's the Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary
“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”
― Albert Einstein
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
― Ansel Adams
“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders
A government of laws, and not of men.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
John Adams
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert Einstein
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert Schweitzer
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Those who can, do. Those who can't, become consultants. -- Me
I listen to a brief history of a girl that insisted it as been rapped by a consultant ...:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Slicker
And when people asked her, why she was so sure he was a consultant, she replied ... I had to do everything.
Sorry bad joke.
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace Thackeray
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch