"I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience."

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Source : "The Truth of Poetry". Book by Michael Hamburger, 1969.

Zbigniew Herbert

#Responsibility Quotes #Winning Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“Industries do everything they can to enhance the reputations of the industry and their products.”

Source : "The Food Industry's Influence In Nutrition Research". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.
“I can celebrate food anytime. I love cheese. When I crave a certain food, I just eat it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.”
“I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.”
“Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.”

Source : Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books
“A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.”
“It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.”
“We have so much separation between feeling the emotional and physical side of sex.”

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