"There is a proud modesty in merit."

-- John Dryden

#Proud Quotes #Merit Quotes #Modesty Quotes

“My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.”
“People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.”

Source : "Song: "Snowman" ("English Settlement")". February 12, 1982.
“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.”
“New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced by the artificiality of their environment.”
“I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.”
“I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.”

Source : Charles Perrault (2015). “Riquet with the tuft”, p.17, "Издательство ""Проспект"""
“There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of things. We become autonomous only when we obey it, because then our will aligns itself with the objectively valid law, and our choice follows the same law as that we give ourselves. We can think of rational faculty (or the idea - the pure rational concept, not exhibitable in experience) as the legislator or author of the law because reason recognizes an objective standard, and to that extent is already aligned with objective moral truth.”
“Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.”

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