Rex Miller's Favorite Quotations

Buried in my friend Rex Miller's ("The Millenium Matrix") Christmas tome were a dozen of his favorite quotations of the year:

• Peter Drucker: "The stepladder is gone, there's not even an implied structure of an industry's rope ladder. It's
more like vines, and you bring your own machete."
• Reinhold Neibuhr: "Nothing worth doing is completed within our lifetime; therefore, we are saved by hope;
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in the immediate context of history; therefore, we are
saved by faith; Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love."
• Gandhi: “We must become the change we wish to see.”
• Richard Theime; “…such symbolic constructs (of the future) are always maps in danger of being mistaken for the
territory"
• Tradition/Future: “The function of tradition is not to live in the past it’s to secure the future.”
• Information/Transformation: “We believe that information is transformation – but its not, information is
information.”
• Churchill: “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if
nothing ever happened.”
• Henri Nouwen: “Healing happens when we can connect our woundedness with Christ’s woundedness.”
• Henri Nouwen: “Hope focuses on the Giver not the gift.”
• Henri Nouwen: “Prayer has meaning only when it is necessary and indispensable.”
• Rev. William Sloane Coffin: “Faith doesn't give certainty it gives you the ability to deal with uncertainty.”
• Rev. William Sloane Coffin: “If you love the good without hating evil then you tend toward sentimentalism. If you
hate evil more than you embrace the good then end up a hater.”
• Bono: “Your enemies will define you so make them interesting.”
• PJ O’Rourke “If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it is free”
• “Hope is the adrenaline of the soul.”
• Johnny Cash: “You can only get so far with rage, you need strategy.”
• President Gerald Ford: “Anybody who

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[trogdor]

These are times when a man may speak in defence of any creed, except his own.

GK Chesterton

[trogdor]

These are times when a man may speak in defence of any creed, except his own.

GK Chesterton