"The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects."

-- Jacques Maritain

#Country Quotes #Patriotism Quotes #Tolerate Quotes

“A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.”
“If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.”
“There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf.”
“The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction I think itâ€™s almost imperative that you identify an audience so you can confirm or challenge or undermine whatever ideas or prejudices they might have about your subject.”
“My two older brothers are both molecular biologists and neuroscientists, and I feel like representing them accurately is never done in movies, and I really wanted to at least capture the spirit of a Ph.D. student whose goal and aspiration is to increase the sum total of human knowledge. That is noble. That was really, really important, to capture the three-dimensionality of scientists. Scientists fall in love, scientists have the greatest sense of humor, scientists are passionate.”
“At least I can say that I'm honest.”
“Balance is to choose happiness, to feel that the purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved, to be happy, to be conscious, to be aware, to be fulfilled.”
“When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.”

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