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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).

  • Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.

  • Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.

  • I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  • The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

  • Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

  • No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

  • A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

  • The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

  • The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

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