"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it."

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Helen Keller

#Happiness Quotes #Generosity Quotes #Philanthropy Quotes

“You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off pint-sized salesfolk or tie-with-short-sleeved-shirt-wearing adults. But if you are going to answer the door in your own house, what's wrong with being armed? What makes people feel entitled to a kid-friendly greeting when they disturb random strangers in their homes?”
“What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.”

Source : Patricia Marx (1985). “You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.”
“I tend to gravitate toward the more powerful roles. As opposed to the doe-eyed girl who bats her eyelashes and runs around in towels, you now what I mean? Because that kind of makes me want to vomit.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.”

Source : Christopher Dawson (2011). “The Judgment of the Nations”, p.9, CUA Press
“....I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of this country (the South) are to legislate for us - when our dearest rights are to be left, in the hands of those, whose advantage it will be to infringe them.”
“Faith does not mean credulity...”

Source : "Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1956.
“If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.”

Source : Frederick William Faber (1867). “Hymns Selected from Frederick William Faber”, p.55

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