"Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful."

-- Catullus

#Thank You Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Grateful Quotes

“I'm not particularly fond of the Hamptons.”

Source : Interview with Rebecca Sinn, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.
“Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.”
“We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy”
“Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.”

Source : Virginia Postrel (2009). “The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness”, p.4, Harper Collins
“The Spirit of the Lord says that God is placing a crown of manifestation on the heads of His faithful, diligent, chosen saints - a crown of great favor and authority with God and men - a new and greater installment of the fruits and blessings of the Spirit. Another measure, and another, and another.”
“The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.”
“Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.”

Source : "Thomas Pogge and global fairness". "The Philosopher's Zone" with Alan Saunders, www.abc.net.au. March 18, 2012.
“Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.”

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