"I don't think there's anything wrong with pity. Like if you saw a dog having just been hit by a car, you would pity that dog. But then what do you do? Do you leave it there to get run over by more cars, or do you step into traffic and hold up your hand? "Stop! An animal has been hit!" and carry the thing to safety?"

-- Ottessa Moshfegh

#Running Quotes #Dog Quotes #Animal Quotes

“Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.”
“We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.”
“A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds And when the weeds begin to grow It's like a garden full of snow...”
“Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.”

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“I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.”
“Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious love loves man only for God's sake, therefore loves man only apparently, but in truth God only." Is this different with moral love? Does it love the man, this man for this man's sake, or for morality's sake, for Man's sake, and so-for ***** homini Deus-for God's sake?”
“Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.”
“Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.”

Source : Bela H. Banathy (2013). “Guided Evolution of Society: A Systems View”, p.255, Springer Science & Business Media

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