WIST Quotations

King, Martin Luther -- Sermon (1957-11-17), “Loving Your Enemies,” Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery

Dave — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 01:38:54 +0000

In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) American clergyman, civil rights leader, social activist, preacher
Sermon (1957-11-17), “Loving Your Enemies,” Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth -- “Christmas Bells,” st. 1 (1864)

Dave — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 21:16:19 +0000

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet
“Christmas Bells,” st. 1 (1864)
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Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36

Dave — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:49:48 +0000

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition; they do a better thing than that, they practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Liveableness of Life.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36
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Euclid's 47th Proposition (in his Elements, Book 1) is the Pythagorean Theorem. Collected in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, ch. 3 (1881).

~Other -- S. U. Sunrei

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Visible goodwill is the strongest negotiation strategy. Don’t let somebody else determine your behavior.

(Other Authors and Sources)
S. U. Sunrei

Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36
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Collected in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, ch. 3 (1881)