Quotes - Drae Wright (Sanford, NC) Showing 1-11 of 11

#1

“Greek philosophers knew then that governments could warp men, just as men can warp governments. "People are the same everywhere, only governments try to make them different." Who was it who had said that? It could have been Socrates, but it wasn't. We recalled the engineering student in northern Iraq who had.”
― McGregor Smith Jr., Thank you, Marco Polo: The Story of the First Around-the-World Trailer Caravan

tags: governments, people

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#2

“I thought, If only the whole nation of Israel—and the whole world—could understand that Jews and Palestinians can get along when they begin to treat each other with dignity.”
― Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel

tags: israel, jews, palestinians, peace

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#3

“Meekness, then, was not weakness but relying fully on Gods power as Moses had.”
― Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel

tags: meekness, strength

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#4

“The momentum carried us out of the church and into the streets where true Christianity belongs.”
― Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel

tags: christianity, church, true-christianity

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#5

“Perot's father did not know what civil rights were: this was how you treated other human beings.”
― Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

tags: civil-rights, human-beings

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#6

“...if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all.”
― Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles

tags: bad-things, life, nothing, ross-perot, worrying

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#7

“I who have copied down this story, or more accurately fantasy, do not credit the details of the story, or fantasy. Some things in it are devilish lies, and some are poetical figments; some seem possible and others not; some are for the enjoyment of idiots.”
― Thomas Cahill

tags: book, books, fantasy, figments, irish, poetical, scribe, stories, story

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#8

“Like the Jews before them, the Irish enshrined literacy as their central religious act.”
― Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

tags: civilization, irish, literacy, religious-act

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#9

“By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought.”
― Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

tags: image, invisible, seventeenth-century, thought, visible

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