User since: Jul 24, 2003 at 16:51 UTC (14 years ago) Last here: Jul 22, 2017 at 07:15 UTC (9 weeks ago) Experience: 4416 Level: Priest (14) Writeups: 207 Location: PDX User's localtime: Sep 23, 2017 at 19:00 -07 Scratchpad: View Member of: pedagogues For this user: Search nodes

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Monks I've Met

• heroin_bob
• ercparker
• luculent
• bravenmd
• blaxpear
• jeyroz

Quotes of note

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
-Galileo Galilei

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can."
- Owen Meredith, Last Words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people."
- Leo Rosten