"Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Character Quotes #Mean Quotes #Office Quotes

“Yo can’t reason someone out of something he didn’t reason himself into.”
“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
“Living fast where it's all about the money bags? Never front.”
“The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.”
“Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.”

Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA
“Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.”
“Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.”
“I think that always myself is my worst opponent. I always playing against myself first and then to the other one. So I'm playing against two guys during the match...It's like mentally I don't know what is gonna happen in the next ten minutes. Maybe I get depressed in ten minutes. I don't know myself too much...Yeah, I was working with a psychology, and I still.”

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