"The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him."

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Source : Theodore Parker (1871). “Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.253

Theodore Parker

#Greatness Quotes #Men Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life.”
“Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.”
“I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonnas eyebrows. I think its beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed.”
“I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.”
“Solitude begets whimsies.”
“It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.”
“I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.”
“We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake”

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