"To be Radchaai is to be civilised."

-- Ann Leckie

#Civilised Quotes

“Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.”
“Iâ€™m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.”
“That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.”

Source : Harvey Claflin Mansfield (2007). “Manliness”, p.147, Yale University Press
“Seek each day to do or say something to further Christianity among the heathen.”
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?”

Source : "David Bowie, 21st-Century Entrepreneur". Interview with Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 2002.
“With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.”
“I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“As the Holy Trinity, our God is One Being, although Three Persons, so, likewise, we ourselves must be one. As our God is indivisible, we also must be indivisible, as though we were one man, one mind, one will, one heart, one goodness, without the smallest admixture of malice - in a word, one pure love, as God is Love. That they may be one, even as We are One (John 17:22).”

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