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Odin

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Odin (from Havamal)

“Cut wood in a wind,
row boats in a breeze,
save sex for the darkness,
the eyes of day are everywhere;
sail a ship for its swiftness,
use a shield for shelter,
use a sword for severing
and a cutie for kissing.”
  • This quote comes from stanza 82 of Hávamál (Sayings of the High One), an old poem which was preserved in the 13th-century Poetic Edda which was produced anonymously in Iceland. The translation is by David A. H. Evans (Viking Society for Northern Research, 1986).
 

 

Saint Teresa of Avila

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Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
“I believe that in every little thing created by God there is more than we realize, even in so small a thing as a tiny ant.”
  • From Interior Castle (Fourth Mansions, chapter II) by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers (Dover Publications, 2007).

 

Chuang Tzu

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Chuang Tzu (c. 4th Century BCE)

“If we regard a thing as useful because there is a certain usefulness to it, then among all the ten thousand things there are none that are not useful.”

  • From Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings (section 17), translated by Burton Watson. (Columbia University Press, 1996).

Al-Ghazali

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Al-Ghazali (c. 1058-1111)

“One does not point to the light of the sun but, rather, to the sun. In the obvious sense of this example, everything in existence is related to God just as light is related to the sun.”

  • From The Niche of Lights (chapter 1) by Al Ghazālī, translated by David Buchman. Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1998.

 

Confucius

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Confucius (c. 551-479 BCE)
“Chi Wen Tzu used to think thrice before acting. The Master hearing of it said, Twice is quite enough.”
  • The Analects of Confucius (Book V, section 19) translated by Arthur Waley (Vintage Books, 1989).

 

John Calvin

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John Calvin (1509-1564)
“I confess, indeed, that I am not poor; for I desire nothing more than what I have.”
  • From John Calvin’s preface to his Commentary on Pslams (Originally published c. 1557), translated by J. Dillenberger (c. 1971), and reprinted in A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introduction, edited by Denis R. Janz (Fortress Press, 2008).

 

1st Viscount Field Marshal Herbert Plumer

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Field Marshal Herbert Plumer (1857-1932)

“Gentlemen, we may not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography.”

  • Field Marshal Herbert Plumer reportedly made this statement prior to detonating tunnels filled with between 500-600 tons of explosives before the Battle of Messines on June 7th, 1917.

Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
“Nature does nothing in vain, and more causes are in vain when fewer suffice. For nature is simple and does not indulge in the luxury of superfluous causes.”
  • From Isaac Newton’s Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Book 3, rule 1), translated/edited by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman (University of California Press, 1999).

 

The Buddha

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The Buddha (words recorded 3rd century BCE)
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own common sense.”

 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

 

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