"... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them."

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Source : Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1850). “Godey's Magazine”

Sarah Josepha Hale

#Exercise Quotes #Rights Quotes #Liable Quotes

“Let's start a new tomorrow, today.”

Source : Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”
“There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,”

Source : Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Schimmel, Thomas E. Crow, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (2005). “Robert Rauschenberg: combines”, Steidl / Edition7L
“With every character, you alter, you canâ€™t be attached to your own identity.”
“What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?”

Source : Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton
“In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.”
“Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.”
“The point at which society moves towards our views is a point where we are significantly closer to the vegan world that we are all working toward.”
“I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.”

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