O Quotes
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“Our cup is often so full of pain that joy seems completely unreachable. When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.”
“Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.”
“Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!”
Source: Paradise Lost. [With a portrait.]
“Our currency is what we are able to make.”
“Our current ability to break through particular boundaries, whether on a physical or emotional level, cannot be measured with what we were able to undertake and achieve as children.”
Source: Unveiling reality
“Our current administration is a patchwork - some from the French, some from the Swiss, the Turks, the Ottomans; then the Russians came; now we have a global presence. We need to create a system that is organic and can function for the whole state. Currently, foreign policy here is domestic policy.”
“Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn’t had a long history.”
“Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right for the people they have harmed. [...] Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night.”
“Our current cultural ethos is that achieving happiness is like achieving other goals. If we simply work hard at it, we can master happiness, just as we can figure out how to use new computer software, play the piano or learn Spanish. However, if the goal of becoming happier is different from these other goals, efforts devoted to augmenting happiness may backfire, disappointing -and potentially depressing- us because we can't achieve our expected goal.”
Source: The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
“Our current draconian laws prohibiting the use of marijuana by responsible adults are doubly flawed. Not only does such prohibition violate fundamental freedoms but also. . . it undermines personal health and public safety. Regardless of your views on the civil liberties issues. . .another compelling justification for marijuana law reform: that it will promote health and safety for all of us, including our nation's children.”
“Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.”
“Our current economic system has two fundamental weaknesses: it’s based on unlimited growth on a finite planet, and it benefits a small number of people, not everyone.”
Source: Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
“Our current education system was created in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and was modeled after the new factories of the industrial revolution. Public schools, set up to supply the factories with a skilled labor force, crammed education into a relatively small number of years. We have tried to pack more and more in while extending schooling up to age 24 or 25, for some segments of the population. In general, such an approach still reflects factory thinking—get your education now and get it efficiently, in classrooms in lockstep fashion. Unfortunately, most people learn in those classrooms to hate education for the rest of their lives.
The factory system doesn't work in the modern world, because two years after graduation, whatever you learned is out of date. We need education spread over a lifetime, not jammed into the early years—except for such basics as reading, writing, and perhaps citizenship. Past puberty, education needs to be combined in interesting and creative ways with work. The factory school system no longer makes sense.”
“Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.”
“Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead... What I believe is, if he [Belcher] didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.”
“Our current higher education system is steeped in a philosophy that doubts our ability to even perceive the physical world. That philosophy is called postmodernism.”
Source: A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
“Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.”
“our current mental-hygiene philosophy stresses the idea that people ought to be happy, that unhappiness is a symptom of maladjustment. Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.”
“our current mental hygiene philosophy stresses the idea that people ought to be happy, that unhappiness is the symptom of maladjustment. Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy' (Weisskopf-Joelson)”
“Our current model of capitalism and the dominant ideas in policy making have led to a failure of investment by both the public and the private sector in the things that drive productivity, and which affect its distribution.”
“Our current monetary system is the reason why our planet is swimming in cheap, low-quality products, because businesses want to spend the least amount of money to create a product, which makes it low-quality, and businesses also make products that don’t last on purpose so they can make more money when the customer has to buy the same product again, and sometimes rebought an absurd amount of times. If money was taken out of the equation, only the people whose passion to make certain products would be making them, and they’d be the people who’d make the best products since it would be done out of passion instead of the want for money.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.”
“Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.”
“Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never even apply.”
“Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and also demonizing them... The drug war is basically for this - It has nothing to do with drugs, but it has plenty to do with criminalizing an unwanted population and scaring everybody else.”
“Our current privatized and fragmented commodity-based healthcare system costs more than public healthcare for other countries around the world. I must repeat this; we are already paying for the cost of Universal Health Care and then some.”
Source: What the U.S. Healthcare System Doesn't Want You to Know, Why, and How You Can Do Something About It
“Our current system generates dissent and then sells weapons to both sides. This net negative proposition will need to be evolved away from and absorbed into historical activities.”
Source: Primer for Alien Contact
“Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It punishes the voting blocks unimportant to politicians, and rewards voting blocks who keep them in office.”
“Our current terms fail to explain the reason why human history changed so dramatically. The period BCE is better described as BC (the period 'before Christ'), and the years we now refer to as part of the Common Era (CE) are better labeled as AD (*Anno Domini, *or the 'year[s] of our Lord"). While the designations BC and AD may seem like artifacts from the past, they are a far more accurate description of history's timeline, given that they reference the divine person of interest, who divided history.”
Source: Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible
“Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time.”
Source: The 80/20 Principle
“Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?”
Source: The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies
“Our customer is the person whose household income is under $100,000, which is the majority of Americans. We created Acorns from the ground up to serve their best interests. We started with micro-investing, which allows them to invest their spare change. Once they get more engaged they can set recurring investments - $5 a day, $5 a week, for instance - whatever works for them.”
“Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company.”
“Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.”
“Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.”
“Our dad made everything competitive for me and brother. It always was a world championship, a national championship, Big 10 championship. It was always at stake in everything we did.”
“Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.”
“Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.”
“Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the field and our sweat, it is a war of values vs greed, where more elephants can be killed by a vote than by any gun.”
“Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.”
“Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strenthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.”
“Our daily endeavours and activities should be about or around these value systems. They reflect love. They reflect care. They reflect kindness. They are qualities of heaven.”
“Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“Our daily life is full of choices between love and no love. The more you choose love, the more you inwardly harness light and energy, until you become completely nūr-ala-nūr.”
Source: The Book of Love
“Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of the improbable action of some preposterous creature who has nothing to gain and indeed gains nothing from causing us embarrassment, difficulties or harm. Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation - or better there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid.”
“Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.”
“Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.”
“Our daily prayer ought to be:
Please universe, help me
help myself
and help me show others
how to help themselves.”
“Our daily routines are our best illusions of new beginnings, a new cycle.”
Source: What Kingdom