From 69b590d5790a0dae1266ff9dd9a8256b50868be3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bernie Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 02:12:39 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Edit page GreatQuotes --- GreatQuotes | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/GreatQuotes b/GreatQuotes index 80db128..ef1a825 100644 --- a/GreatQuotes +++ b/GreatQuotes @@ -7,11 +7,6 @@ When asked if he was a Hindu: "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." \\ — [[https://saudialchemist.org/2007/11/24/yes-i-am-a-muslim-a-christian-and-a-jew/ | Gandhi]] (but didn't he also say "God has no religion"?) -On Showing up to meet His Majesty King Edward VII of England in just a loincloth, \\ -a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king. Gandhi replied simply, \\ -"The King was wearing enough for the both of us." \\ -— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] trolling - "Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time." \\ — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | Albert Einstein]] @@ -74,13 +69,18 @@ the individual towards freedom. \\ "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." \\ — [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] -Looking at a mass of things for sale in Athens: "How many things I can do without!" \\ -— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] on consumerism - "It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. \\ Hack away at the unessential." \\ — [[https://www.brucelee.com/podcast-blog/2017/6/28/52-hack-away-the-unessentials | Bruce Lee]] +On Showing up to meet His Majesty King Edward VII of England in just a loincloth, \\ +a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king. Gandhi replied simply, \\ +"The King was wearing enough for the both of us." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi | Gandhi]] trolling + +Looking at a mass of goods for sale: "How many things I have no need for!" \\ +— [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius | Socrates]]' take on Athens' rampant consumerism, circa 400 BC + --- 1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. \\ -- 2.25.1