"The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning."

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Source : Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.151, Macmillan

Gerry Spence

#Self Quotes #Given Quotes #Incomparable Quotes

“Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.”
“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
“Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they might learn in their first twelve years of schooling.”

Source : Blase Bonpane (2004). “Common Sense for the Twenty-first Century”
“The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.”
“Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.”

Source : Marvin Harris (2011). “Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures”, p.229, Vintage
“Thereâ€™s a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in.”
“I'm kind of a purist and I actually just want to be a good player, with that said though... I probably should get a little more involved in that as that's what people are doing and making great songs out of their computer so it's kind of like, at what point does purist become arrogance?”
“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.”

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