"Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure."

-- Pat Riley

#Life Quotes #Travel Quotes #Ambition Quotes

“A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.”
“No religion has a separate God showering grace only on those who profess to abide by that faith.”
“From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.”
“I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How is a national leader to explain the sacrifice of so much for nothing?”

Source : Thomas Powers (1982). “Thinking about the next war”, Alfred A. Knopf
“How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.”

Source : W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.41, Princeton University Press
“Chess is the art of analysis.”

Source : Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation
“Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.”

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