"I remember my mum saying to me, 'You can give up the violin - when you've done Grade 8.' Which is the highest grade, and the most unfair target ever. So I did all the grades, just to annoy her."

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Gethin Jones

#Giving Up Quotes #Target Quotes #Done Quotes

“I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.”
“What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.”
“A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.”
“I pray because I am real clear that what I am doing and how I am doing it is my service, is my ministry, and so I want to be in perfect alignment with my creator. I do not care who you are. If I do not get the okay on the inside, you will not be showing up on the outside.”
“The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases and, when applied synchronically to the conditions of a bourgeois society that is industrially advanced and constituted as a social-welfare state, they fuse into a clouded amalgam. Yet the very conditions that make the inherited language seem inappropriate appear to require these words, however confused their employment.”

Source : "Space, Place, and Environmental Ethics". Book by Andrew Light, 1997.
“New rule: If churches don't have to pay taxes, they also can't call the fire department when they catch fire. Sorry reverend, that's one of those services that goes along with paying in. I'll use the fire department I pay for. You can pray for rain.”
“I think business needs to have a heart and to have a heart a company must be more than just a moneymaking machine.”
“But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.”

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