"In America, we're divided, deeply divided."

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Source : Source: www.democracynow.org

Eddie Glaude

#America Quotes #Divided Quotes

“All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.”
“When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.”
“I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . .”
“I have met many feminists who were not Lesbians but I have never met a Lesbian who was not a feminist.”
“When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.”

Source : Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.17, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.”

Source : Paul Monette (2014). “Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story”, p.99, Open Road Media
“Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.”
“One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.”

Source : Enrico Fermi (1965). “Note e memorie (Collected papers)”

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