"True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle."

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Source : Hugh Blair (1824). “Sermons. ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author”, p.117

Hugh Blair

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“That idea of comparison is what fans do. That's why fans exist. They believe in something and something connects to them, and they have passionate feelings and opinions about films.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source.”
“I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.”

Source : "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists". Book by Katharine Kuh, p. 119, 1962.
“You can't discriminate against someone because of their race, color, or religion, but you can discriminate against someone because of their sexual preference, I find it to be abhorrent.”
“Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.”
“I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there.”
“Sure, kids want to read whatever is the hot book, and of course they want to read fantasy and any kind of speculative fiction, but they also like to read stories with kids that look just like them, that have the same problems as them. And I've noticed that what they particularly want to see is to see those characters prevail. So they don't want sanitized situations. They want stories to be raw, they want them to be gritty, but they also do want to see the hope at the end of the story.”
“Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.”

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