"Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim."

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Source : "Negligent parents, lawbreaking kids" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. August 22, 2013.

LZ Granderson

#Assessment Quotes #Self Quotes #Blame Quotes

“Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.”
“All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low....”
“I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.”

Source : Interview with Sairah Irshad Khan, newslinemagazine.com. November 2002.
“I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it.”
“I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.”
“Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.”
“Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.”

Source : "From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931". Book by Jean van Heijenoort, 1967.
“We tend to speak of sin in very personal and individual terms. Jeremiah does not downplay that, but he also sees how a whole society can be bound up in the tentacles of sin, in the assumptions that everybody around you makes, about how it becomes easier to sin than not to, and how we can become so confused and contradictory in our reactions, when sin is pointed out.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com

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