"Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous."

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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 58), 1937.

African Spir

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“Life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.”

Source : Christian De Duve (1995). “Vital Dust: Life As a Cosmic Imperative”, Basic Books
“Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.”
“When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.”
“Bin Laden-ism, I don't think, is dead yet. And I think there's a long way to go before we can legitimately say that, you know, it is no longer in our midst.”
“Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.”

Source : Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.164, University of Chicago Press
“Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher percentage of the African American and Latino population does live in poverty as compared to the white population, when overall numbers are looked at, it is clear that people of all races, ethnicities, and colors, are represented amongst America's poor.”
“How do you know when an apology is trueâ€”when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?”

Source : Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen
“The next-most difficult thing in the world is to get perspective. The most difficult is to keep it.”

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