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"And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses [...] Now when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel. [...]"

"The best way to handle doubt is to try out those things you are scared of by starting small. When you try and see the result, it fuels your conviction, you learn, and it helps you improve. Adversity is a faith and muscle builder; it makes you stronger and forces you out of your comfort zone. So, I welcome it with an open mind and see it as an opportunity to learn and create value."

"So, I was convinced that Shuttlers would work, even though everyone around me had doubts. They tried convincing me otherwise, but I didn’t listen. I had a clear conviction that Shuttlers was the way to go."

"One cannot deny that at the heart of the attitude still referred to today as “weak thought”, which continues to have its mentor in Gianni Vattimo, there is a persistent trace of that longing for the infinite that was characteristic of Romanticism. The infinity of Being, Truth and Perfection, which Romanticism dreamed of, is replaced by the infinity of transience, error and evil as the nature of the world, thus absolutising appearance in its worst forms and making human experience the destiny of nothingness. This new romantic dream, which is the inverse of the nineteenth-century one, may perhaps appeal as a literary expression of the crisis, the prevailing evils, the dangers facing humanity today, but it does not indicate any way out."

"He who utters these words speaks the truth: There’s no turning back from what has been decreed/destined. Nothing squanders the benefits of reason more than desire and stubbornness. Nothing is more futile than advice given to a person who is not prepared to accept and endure it. Nothing brings punishment more swiftly or with worse consequences than oppression and betrayal. Nor is there anything that brings greater shame and disgrace than excessive boasting and pride."

"I was good on my job and I demonstrated the proficiencies that allowed me to excel purely on merit."

"The oxymoron is preferred by the mystic because it allows him to express something ineffable, because it is the best tool for speaking of the unspeakable, because in the world of duality it creates the ‘'coincidentia oppositorum’', which Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), in the context of his theology of the Incarnate Word, considered almost the least imperfect definition of God. The mystic, in his talk of God, punctuated by ‘'improprietas’', ‘'voces obscurae, horridae, inauditae’', seeks through a paroxysmal accumulation of oxymorons to linguistically touch the divine. (from ‘'La mistica e i mistici’', p. 187)"

"Silence also enhances testimony. Silence does not prove, argue, or demonstrate; it only testifies. Yet, despite this, or perhaps because of it, it possesses an unusual power. “Why are you crying out so loudly?” God said to Moses. Yet Moses was silent. “So much,” commented Kierkegaard, “can silence cry out to heaven.” (p. 93)"

"Be ambitious and tackle hard problems. Be in touch with academic and intellectual communities outside the Lab. Intern if you can."

"If Nietzsche had returned to the beginnings of Greece to reconstruct the hierarchy of values, Hesse was an anti-authoritarian who appealed to institutions; if Spengler had diagnosed the agony of our civilization, he discovered Asia. The canton of Ticino was his true homeland. There he found what he was looking for. There he is buried."

"As an outsider, I have observed that Uganda has made tremendous strides from the Amin era."

"I would rather be remembered as a Christian who loved his country and family."

"The theme of silence can be topical or outdated. It is never out of fashion. And today, despite what many may think at first glance, it is undoubtedly topical. Perhaps more so than ever before. “As the power of language diminishes,” noted Susan Sontag, “the power of silence increases.” And ours are times in which language is seen as something corrupt. “In no century,” wrote Ignazio Silone in ‘'Pane e vino’' [the title is ‘'Vino e pane’'], "has the word been so perverted, as it is now, from its natural purpose, which is to enable people to communicate. Speaking and deceiving (often deceiving oneself) are now almost synonymous." The widespread disaffection with words stems from the realization that our speech and that of others has become mostly mere palatal facts, impersonal and banal chatter. (pp. 83-84)"

"The research we are aiming for seeks to improve cooperation between business and the community by building ‘knowledge webs’, a goal that is in phase with Europe’s target of evolving from an ‘information society’ to a ‘knowledge society’."

"(About Hermann Hesse) Like few others has summarized in his work the impulses and escapism of our time: loved a few years ago by the right, he is not disliked by the left and is appreciated by those who devote themselves to spiritual research. In him, Ladislao Mittner noted, pietism and Buddhism coexisted; in his pages, we find a religion born of a similar union, capable of reflecting trends without offending them."

"The dog loves the one who beats it."

"i not done with this fight yet."

"If you do not protect your own honor, the crows will peck at your flesh."

"The overall productivity of our national economy is not high enough. To put it even more bluntly: Work-life balance and a four-day week will not be enough to maintain our country’s current level of prosperity in the future, which is why we need to work harder."

"In reality, Croce made a graft. The distinction became dialectical transition, opposition and overcoming. The vital and economic moment, innocent in itself, became, in its collision with other forms, the negative, the ugly, the error, the evil. Humanistic harmony was broken, and the rupture of equilibrium, the internal contrast, became the driving force of becoming and overcoming... But above all, one must ask whether the “graft”, which is always an artificial operation, has really been successful. This is the question that dramatically troubled Benedetto Croce until the very end."

"In his essays on Croce, Carlo Antoni noted that the struggle over the distinction between activity, and between ethical and economic-political practice, initially changed the author's perspective on the entire structure, albeit inadvertently. Turning, in “'Filosofia della pratica”', with still only speculative interests, to the consideration of politics, Croce was critical, above all, of humanitarian, Enlightenment-inspired, egalitarian democracy."

"ONLY Ü CAN DECIDE WHAT CHANGES TO MAKE IN A POSITIVE WAY"

"I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't politically defend it."

"Art in the broad sense is representation, that is, it repeats or imitates something that already exists or presents a quality of experience that does not yet exist but can be brought into being. Art as creation is never a repetition of something that already exists, but is the recomposition of something that does not exist."

"Theatre has a long tradition as a form of presentation and requires actors and spectators who are passively receptive. Jerzy Grotowski decided to abandon presentation and begin research into the possibility of creating experiences not through representation, which induces receptive perception, but through practices that allow something to happen to the actor."

"The link between philosophy and theatre is strong because theatre also deals with the embodiment of cognitive action, that is, making something happen as a sign of something else."

"Women have the right to practice what corresponds to their culture. We are in a country where wearing the pagne has value. And expressing the celebration by wearing one's pagne is perfectly in line with Congolese culture. Laughing, having fun, taking a moment to enjoy oneself is a right. One does not exclude the other."

"Prodigal Son (TV series), American crime television series."

"We should try and always reach for the stars, If we fall a little lower, we will be above mediocrity. So having a goal out there is very important and we should be able to inspire our population to live towards a goal and not inspire negativity or lack of hope or under development. Lets inspire a vision ahead."

"We are all familiar with the tired saying, ‘a woman’s place is in the home’; it is exactly this type of regressive narrative that sets women back. Challenging gender-based stereotypes is still an ongoing, uphill battle. Therefore, we must find ways to create inclusive and enabling environments where women are able to realise their full political, economic and social potential.We must turn our attention to paving the way for future generations. Creating pathways that enable more young women to enter the ranks of political leadership is fundamental.Education is the single most important tool to achieve this. Yet, women and girls continue to be denied the same opportunities afforded to their male counterparts."

"Parable of the Prodigal Son, one of the parables of Jesus from the New Testament."

":Agent 12: Agent 12 reporting"

"Carmen: Take these keys and hide them; and not under your pillow like the last time. Somewhere hard to find."

"Carmen: Enjoy your stay, agents. So glad you could... drop in. AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

"“To be courageous is to expose yourself to risk, danger, maybe even harm,” Ober said. “That doesn't mean you have to march off to war, as an Athenian citizen would, but it does mean that you should be willing to express a view that may be unpopular, that you open yourself to views that you might find really challenging and hard to accept. That takes real courage.”"

"Democracy demands much from us as citizens because, unlike autocracies, there is no boss but ourselves. Citizens govern with one another not over one another. Consequently, this relationship between citizens survives only through civic bargaining. Kings and oligarchs dictate laws and prescribe cultural norms with little need to negotiate or bargain with their subjects. (2024)"

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a 2008 film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett"

"Believing in the power of LOVE was what I held onto fighting for my dear life."

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald"

"Boys in uniforms with weapons! Sends a quiver right through me."

"[to Clara] Mother Ginger wants to rule the Realms!"

"Original quote was translated from Hindi language: "भाषा हमारी पहचान है और साहित्य हमारी सामुदायिक चेतना की अभिव्यक्ति है। हमें कभी भी नहीं सोचना चाहिए कि हम छोटे या कमजोर लोग हैं। हम आदिवासी ही देश के मूल निवासी हैं। हमसे ही बाकी दुनिया ने सब कुछ सीखा है। हमारी भाषा, संस्कृति और सभ्यता इस धरती पर सबसे पुरानी है।""

"Language is our identity, and literature is the expression of our collective consciousness. We should never think of ourselves as a small or weak people. We, the Adivasis, are the original inhabitants of this country. It is from us that the world has learnt everything. Our language, culture, and civilization are the oldest on this earth."

"Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: “For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father’s house.”"

"This book brings out vividly the titanic struggle now taking place, not only in the United States, but over the entire world, and while at the present time the battle raging has not reached the point where bullets, swords and poison gas are the reasons used, the time will soon arrive when the Roman Catholic craving for world-power will, if not checked, cause a revival of a religious war that will be far more disastrous than the late World War."

""I want to inspire people to fall in love with nature and treat it with care. Conservation begins with love. Nowadays, there are many tree-planting initiatives, but people often replace indigenous forests with saplings, believing that is mitigation, yet it is not. We must first protect what we already have."

"She took to the 48-hours tree hugging marathon to raise awareness about the profound impact of tree hugging on mental and emotional wellbeing."

"We must come back to nature.Conservation begins with love. We must nurture a million people who care before we plant a million trees."

"It’s difficult to look at some of the ideas circulated by business gurus, the content of the reports they produce and the fees that they charge for their insights, without becoming a little bit scornful. Some of it’s just so vacuous and therefore extremely difficult to take entirely seriously…"

"Politics is a web of very complex technologies, techniques and instruments, as they evolve in a certain direction they can’t simply be reversed at a drop of a hat in the way that I think a lot of the left would like."