"Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life."

-- Rebecca Lee Crumpler

#Selfish Quotes #Human Life Quotes #Duty Quotes

“Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.”

Source : "A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character".
“We usually get what we anticipate.”

Source : Claude M. Bristol (2013). “The Magic of Believing”, p.87, Courier Corporation
“Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first of all by his works, did it afterwards, by his Words. We will now for a while read the former of these books; 'twill help us in reading the latter. They will admirably assist one another.”

Source : Cotton Mather (1815). “The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements”, p.11
“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”
“A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.”

Source : David Peace (2010). “Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four”, p.28, Profile Books
“A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.”

Source : 1992 Backlash (UK edn), ch.3,'Backlashes Then and Now'.
“Peace for us means the destruction of Israel.”
“I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.”

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