"We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed. If we abandon a belief that justice will eventually be done, we make this world much more difficult for ourselves."

-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Running Quotes #Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it, and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous. To hold yourself in this attitude of mind is to set into operation subtle, silent, and irresistible forces that sooner or later will actualize in material form that which is today merely an idea. But ideas have occult power, and ideas, when rightly planted and rightly tended, are the seeds that actualize material conditions.”

Source : Ralph Waldo Trine, Mina Parker (2012). “Thoughts I Met on the Highway: Create the Life You Want, A Hampton Roads Collection”, p.14, Hampton Roads Publishing
“I do love competence in a man.”

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.23, Crown
“The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a historical fact, "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow, and "True History of the Kelly Gang" by Peter Carey.”

Source : Source: www.bostonglobe.com
“Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in a precarious state of employment and subsistence conditions. The impact of this reality took hold and impacted the evolution of the social situation of those countries and even though that produced movements that were not exactly political movements but social movements.”
“Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.”
“I'm the only thing I'll ever hold against you.”
“I cant predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.”

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