QUOTE A DAY - December 9, 2014

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
The religiously articulated state would persecute heretics. They were usually protesting against the social order rather than arguing about theology, and they were seen as a danger to the social order that had to be eliminated. That's been replaced. Now we persecute our ethnic minorities or fail to give them the same rights.
--Karen Armstrong, Salon interview

There are always the stories, the myths we tell ourselves, that enable us to inject some kind of ultimate significance, however hard we try to be rational.
--Karen Armstrong, Salon interview

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
--Mother Teresa


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
--Nassim Taleb

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
--Thomas Moore

There is now an entire mercenary class in the United States that has been created in the post-9/11 era.
--James Risen, NY Times Reporter


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

ANSWER: Jodie Foster

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