"It seems that more people today have a greater desire to live long than they do to live well."

-- Croft M. Pentz

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Excellence Quotes

“I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.”
“The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.”
“Winning ugly is still winning.”
“It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.”
“The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small.”
“It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.”
“Stairway to Wisdomâ€) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data and moving on to first-hand accounts. The highest rung on his stairway, though, went beyond those: â€œEmpathy opens you up to absorb the good and the bad. Love impels you not just to observe but to seek unionâ€”to think as another thinks and feel as another feels.”
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”

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