quotes about Civic Minded

“When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.”

“The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.”

“Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate.”

Source : "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings" by Yves Klein, in 1961; p. 67, 1974.

“One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.”

“I'm a believer in paying your dues.”

“We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting”

“Like the whole DOGMA thing, screenings, bringing people together. I love when I hear that people I've brought together are working on projects.”

“I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.”

“When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Sep 21, 2015

“I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps ... Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme.”

Source : "Philosophical Troubles: Collected Papers". Book by Saul Kripke, 2011.