"There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?"

-- Margaret Mahy

#Two Quotes #People Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But Â leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.”
“Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.”
“Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.”
“We lost because we didn't win.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I would like people to be moved to act collectively, to militate.”

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“The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.”
“You can't just say I love you, you have to LIVE I love you”
“Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable that life should appear on at least one of them?' 'Sir,' replied Knox, 'if Scotland Yard found a body in your cabin trunk, would you tell them: 'There are millions of trunks in the world; surely one of them must contain a body? I think the would still want to know who put it there'.”

Source : "The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes". Book by Clifton Fadiman, p. 541, October 31, 2009.

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