Walt's World of Wisdom
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Wisdom 71
We no longer fight major battles over minor points.
David Soyer
Source: The Art of Quartet Playing: The Guarneri Quartet in Conversation with David Blum
Comment: David Soyer is cellist of the Guarneri Quartet
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Wisdom 72
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. . . . Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means—to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal—would bring terrible retribution
Louis Brandeis
Source: Justice LOUIS D. BRANDEIS, dissenting, Olmstead et al. v. United States, 277 U.S. 485 (1928).
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Wisdom 73
The makers of our constitution . . . conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.
Louis Brandeis
Source: Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States, 1928.
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Wisdom 74
We do not solve our local conflicts by killing our neighbours. So it ought to be with international conflict if we think of ourselves, first of all,
as global citizens responsible for building
a just and peaceful global community.
Bruce Kent
Source: Chair of the Movement for the Abolition of War
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Wisdom 75
This is our cry
This is our prayer
Peace in the world
Sadako's Monument in Hiroshima
Comment: Children raised money for this Children's Monument to Sadako, the girl of the Thousand Cranes
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Wisdom 76
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let every one who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!
Alphonse Karr
Source: Quoted in Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Wisdom 77
Freedom. One had it if one didn't have to tell others ahead of time what one planned to do. Or if one kept quiet about it.
Half a freedom: if one had to announce one's plans ahead of time.
Slavery: if others could foretell what one would do.
Sten Nadolny
Source: The Discovery of Slowness
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Wisdom 78
One should let the quick live quickly
and the slow slowly,
each by his distinct temporal measure.
Sten Nadolny
Source: The Discovery of Slowness
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Wisdom 79
We can either get ready to go or we can go.
We cannot do both.
Harriet Hopkins
Comment: My mother probably first said this while trying to get all five of us chldren ready for something!
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Wisdom 80
The ability to move an idea
from my mind to your mind
and to move you with the idea.
W. Dean Hopkins
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