"In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives."

-- Sam Keen

#Journey Quotes #Degrees Quotes #Stories Quotes

“What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.”
“My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.”
“I am tired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction, heaped upon me by wicked men; and desire and claim, only those principles guaranteed to all men by the Constitution and laws of the United States and of Illinois.”
“In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, getting rich, and whipping servants. But you have to shoot him in the end.”
“I just love getting dirty.”
“The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man”

Source : Charles Sumner (1850). “Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]”, p.122
“... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'”
“We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige”

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