"Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty."

-- Josephus

#Simplicity Quotes #Forever Quotes #Innovation Quotes

“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”
“I do believe I can forgive almost any shortcoming a person may have except lack of enthusiasm ...”

Source : Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster
“Iâ€™m a basketball player, not a monk.”
“Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.”
“If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.”
“We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.”
“Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.”
“We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.”

Source : "The Boy's Book about Indians: Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains". Book by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61, 1873.

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