"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri"

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Henri Frederic Amiel

#Change Quotes #Self Quotes #Long Quotes

“I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and put it on the debt”
“Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.”
“What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.”
“Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.”

Source : Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”
“When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.”
“If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.”
“I think all of these things, there are always names floated - Newt Gingrich's name is out there. Sometimes you just want to make the loyalists happy by floating those names.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.”

Source : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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