"I think you have a certain level of confidence in what you do. "Arrogance" is the wrong word. I think when you go into it, you're aware that you're doing it for the right reasons - and you have your own moral and ethical code. And we weren't driven by money, but by a a desire to make music and make a statement."

-- Stephen Mallinder

#Thinking Quotes #Arrogance Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.”

Source : "Amy Carter and Abbie Hoffman Win Acquittal, but They Want to Keep the C.i.a. on Trial" by Fred Bernstein, people.com. May 4, 1987.
“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.”
“So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.”
“Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.”
“History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast?”

Source : "Fictional character: Chris Stevens". TV Series "Northern Exposure" ("The Body in Question", 1991), 1990-1995.
“For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dead, it is life that has died and it must be kept in refrigerators like a corpse.”

Source : Alexander Schmemann (1973). “For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy”, p.17, St Vladimir's Seminary Press
“There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like this situation, but that's the way it goes. The books are being born and then walk around the world, just as children do.”
“I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.”

Source : Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.184, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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