"This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise."

-- Victor Hugo

#Wise Quotes #Reality Quotes #Facts Quotes

“To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.”
“Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.”
“I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.”
“Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.”
“No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.”

Source : Richard Aldington, Alister Kershaw (1970). “Richard Aldington: selected critical writings, 1928-1960”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
“Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.”
“The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.”
“The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.”

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