"If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside."

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Source : Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

Wendell Willkie

#Mean Quotes #Want Quotes #Wells Quotes

“We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.”
“I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue and a promise by God that you will be successful, if only you stand fast.”
“It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.”
“The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.”
“Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political reason for taking such a position because it could then be established that dementia-like conditions are not part of the spiritual/theological domain, but undeniably biological in origin and therefore not attributable with moral implications.”
“I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.”
“Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.”

Source : Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

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