X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=RandomLinks;h=3114c00276d4329ea9690ce3e74a16289e769295;hp=8f34708b72dafcff4a19fdd4495d987f69355a06;hb=e8a72dfeb95be0d0f332e4869b70637d7da234eb;hpb=f9de43d167cf504d75ea90638feb8d9cdfb54813 diff --git a/RandomLinks b/RandomLinks index 8f34708..3114c00 100644 --- a/RandomLinks +++ b/RandomLinks @@ -14,10 +14,21 @@ I especially admire these people of our times for how they inspired us to make t * Gandhi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi - "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." + "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." "There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for." + "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." + + "God has no religion" + + "We must respect other religions, even as we respect our own. Mere tolerance thereof is not enough." + + (When asked if he was a Hindu) "Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew." + + 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." * Nelson Mandela @@ -43,3 +54,12 @@ I especially admire these people of our times for how they inspired us to make t The "I have a dream..." speech: http://youtube.com/watch?v=PAKnMLPus1M + * Socrates - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates + + "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." + + "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." + + "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." + + Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, "How many things I have no need of!"