"It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing."

-- Andrew Young

#Blessing Quotes #African American Quotes #Causes Quotes

“A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.”
“Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.”
“Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.”
“I like to create stuff. I like to express myself through jokes.”
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”
“From time to time I have wished to do more work in philosophy of religion, but the demands and challenges have been such that it needed more work than I had time for. I sneaked a chapter into my book on loyalty that touched on some issues in the area. Maybe in the future I will try responding to Philip Kitcher's excellent critique: Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism - it gets closer to me than much of what is produced in the field.”

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“Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a number of generally self-congratulatory half-truths to explain how it happened that he ascended to that particular pinnacle. Often because original motivations don't seem to have much in common with the eventual success, the real and rationalized motivations are difficult to separate.”
“If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.”

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