Beelen Omer Quotes

#1. Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.

Frederick Lenz

#2. In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

Lawrence Eagleburger

#3. Fortune doth both raise up the low and pluck down the high.

Thomas More

#4. Within this quadrilateral of forces, Jefferson was to emerge as the republican equivalent of a philosopher king, who was coldly willing to sacrifice all principles and all allegiances to the one great aim of making America permanent.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. Investing in the inner man will profit you more than investing in the outer man.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.

Victor Hugo

#7. The mind of a baby is a tabula rasa; society writes information on his mind.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Tiny waterfalls trickle down over the rocks where they freeze and the ice glitters in the sunlight reflected off rock and snow. It is said that in the old times, when the early loggers came, the first tree cut down could not fall because the forest was so dense there was no place for it to land.

Kathleen Valentine

#9. Perhaps being hated in the right way is preferable to being loved in the wrong one.

Dov Davidoff

#10. No seventeenth-century pedagogue would have publicly advised his disciple, as did Erasmus in his Dialogues, on the choice of a good prostitute.

Michel Foucault