"Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act."

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Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, Penguin Books

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#People Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Pity Quotes

“The prerequisite that people have a scientific or engineering degree or a medical degree limits the number of female astronauts. Right now, still, we have about 20 per cent of people who have that prerequisite who are female. So hey, girls: Embrace the very fun career of science and technology. Look at computer science. That's what I did.”

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“Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.”
“Guess you lose some & win some, long as the outcome is income.”
“The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.”
“Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.”
“When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself--nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.”
“For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.”
“Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.”

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