"I'm on the verge of taking a stand."

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Tom Hollander

#Decision Quotes #Decision Making Quotes

“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”
“The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded nobility in excessive, impractical outlays of cash prompted by nothing loftier than a species joining hands and saying â€œI bet we can do this.â€ Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government red-lining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Letâ€™s squander some on Mars. Letâ€™s go out and play.”
“We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.”
“Cities are the crucible of civilization.”

Source : Geoffrey West (2017). “Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies”, p.8, Penguin
“There wasn't a lot of R&B cats doing songs at 120 beats per minute before 'Closer,' which I take full credit and responsibility for. That's all good, but it was an experiment. You experiment with something, if it goes good, cool, but you never forget where you come from and R&B is where I come from.”
“Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.”
“I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.”

Source : Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.94, WaterBrook
“I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.”

Source : Carl Hilty (2013). “Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life”, p.55, Read Books Ltd

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