"Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice."

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Lord Acton

#Justice Quotes #Mercy Quotes #Temper Quotes

“It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.”

Source : Alan Brennert (2015). “The Hawaii Novels: Moloka'i and Honolulu”, p.852, St. Martin's Press
“People who are poor, they suffer a lot. And people drink a lot and people take a lot of downers and there's a lot of unemployment.”
“He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets'.”
“The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.”
“It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.”
“For as long as you can remember, you have been a pleaser, depending on others to give you an identity. You need not look at that only in a negative way. You wanted to give your heart to others, and you did so quickly and easily. But now you are being asked to let go of all these self-made props and trust that God is enough for you. You must stop being a pleaser and reclaim your identity as a free self.”
“Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.”

Source : "Andrei Sakharov/ Biographical". www.nobelprize.org.
“This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who never allowed dogs in the house. And he got up to leave the table and came back and Solomon was in his chair. And he says, "This dog is in my chair." And I said, "It's the other way around, you're sitting in his chair."”

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