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Jack Kerouac quote: "Wash your dirty dishes like you are washing the infant Jesus."

Wash your dirty dishes like you are washing the infant Jesus.

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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house. Immanuel Velikovsky
You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing. John Piper
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Pete Hamill quote: "It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but..."
It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century. Pete Hamill
You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway. Cory Lidle
James Anthony Froude quote: "The essence of greatness is neglect of the self."
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. James Anthony Froude
Gustave Flaubert quote: "It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why..."
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. Gustave Flaubert
Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices. William James
So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.' George W. Bush
We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children. Terrence Howard
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Mark-Paul Gosselaar quote: "I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm..."
I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver. Mark-Paul Gosselaar
I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered. Tom Hayden
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. George Bernard Shaw
If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak. Charles M. Schulz