"People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you."

-- Evan Bayh

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Ego Quotes

“It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites -- others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can.”
“I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.”

Source : Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.11, NYU Press
“By all means break the rules...”

Source : "The Elements of Typographic Style". Book by Robert Bringhurst, 1992.
“Even if I'm being selfish, but I want you to only look at me.”
“Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.”
“Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid. Star of the east the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.”

Source : Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”, p.17
“The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.”
“Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.”

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