"The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it."

-- Judith Perelman Rossner

#Government Quotes #Self Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be.”
“It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail”
“I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?”
“Love is accepting your truest, most authentic expression of self, and allowing yourself to do the same with others.”
“Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.”
“There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!”
“People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion.”

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