"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two."

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Source : 1956 Collected in The Journals,'The Late Forties and Fifties'.

John Cheever

#Two Quotes #Evil Quotes #Good And Evil Quotes

“I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.”
“So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.”
“I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.”

Source : "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.
“You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.”
“People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.”
“Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if the minister were a murderer.”
“I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth”
“Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in economic and political reality at the time. It also made sense since the founding principles of the United States are supposedly based on government by the consent of the governed, and the sense that all men are created equal.”

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