"I am thankful that thorns have roses."

-- Alphonse Karr

#Rose Quotes #Thorns Quotes #I Am Thankful Quotes

“People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we could create an auction, we could create a real marketplace. And that's really what triggered my imagination, if you will, and that's what I did.”
“It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.”
“A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.”
“Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.”
“What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?”
“As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.”

Source : Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.87, Youcanprint
“A simple democracy is the devil's own government.”
“I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.”

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