"The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it."

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Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

Benjamin Tucker

#Ideas Quotes #World Quotes #Emergencies Quotes

“I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.”
“In real life I'm a poor dressmaker and a terrible cook, anything in fact but the perfect wife.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.”
“The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.”
“I'm a minimalist when it comes to design.”
“I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still have this kind of abstract subliminal quality to take you on a journey, but you can root it just enough in a particular situation, a particular kind of real situation that a person might have, or a particular context in the real world.”
“Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist.”
“No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.”

Source : "5 Things to Know About Scott Pelley". www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 05, 2011.

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