"The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever."

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John Updike

#Self Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Literature Quotes

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
“The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation.”
“Effort supposes resistance.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser (1998). “The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.369, Indiana University Press
“That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.”
“We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.”
“All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.”

Source : Carol O'Connell (1995). “Mallory's Oracle”, p.133, Penguin
“I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.”
“Thank you,â€ he was whispering, â€œthank you, thank you.â€¦â€ And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away the tears and soot, chanting my name.”

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