Nalaka Exercise Quotes

#1. Every man, therefore, who expects justification by works, must see to it, not that he is better than other men, or that he is very exact and does many things, or that he fasts twice in the week, and gives tithes of all he possesses, but that he is sinless.

Charles Hodge

#2. At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your own mother die because it didn't make financial sense to spend the money to treat her, or because you were too busy to spend the time to heal her sick spirit?

Tom Piazza

#3. True empathy is not self-focused but other-oriented. Instead of making humanity the measure of all things, we need to evaluate other species by what they are.

Frans De Waal

#4. Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

Desmond Tutu

#5. The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Jonathan Miller

#6. I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

Geraldine Brooks

#7. Everyone is striving to unite particulars and find at least some general sense in the general senselessness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Coincidentally, the words RELIGION and BULLSHIT both have eight letters.

Daya Kudari

#9. Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

Horace

#10. And hear across the moan of many seas
The whisper and the laughter of my brook.

Helen Hay Whitney