"I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Alexander McCall Smith

#Thinking Quotes #Rights Quotes #Sight Quotes

“The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad.”

Source : Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.276, Pan Macmillan
“Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.”
“Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.”
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
“I've done every diet there is.”
“DBSK are a very idol group that everyone adores.”
“To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1880). “Short Studies of American Authors”
“A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.”

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