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Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.

Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at the beginning, we are able to unleash human ingenuity and human innovative capacity that was unknown, and takes us to a solution.

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.

Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Expanding can only be done when the company is ready.

Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!

The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

If you're not worth speaking on, then you haven't adequately done your job.

"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.

I'm going with the understanding that I've done my duty.

Do not regret what you have done

Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.

Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.