"The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy."

-- Mary Catherine Bateson

#Commitment Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Politics Quotes

“How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.”

Source : Carol Ryrie Brink (2012). “Caddie Woodlawn”, p.212, Simon and Schuster
“We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some of the most basic Christian truths.”
“history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.”
“Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally ...”
“Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.”
“The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!”
“Learn to Control your emotions or they will control you,”
“One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people.”

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