"What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state."

-- Julia McNair Wright

#Community Quotes #Individual Quotes #States Quotes

“For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips.”

Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1907). “Watchwords”
“Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.”
“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.”

Source : Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
“I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.”

Source : Nextbook Interview, September 14, 2004.
“Michel Houllebecq is surely the novelist who best describes contemporary phobias and fears. He also succeeds perhaps like no other in portraying the postmodern character of our society. He addresses the possibilities of genetics at times, or Islamism, and infuses all of it with a certain amount of absurdity. I get a very strong sense of that in "Submission." The way he toys with the absurd makes him an author sui generis, one who stands out from the others.”
“The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral, spiritual and ethical principles in the task of ensuring a sustainable future for those who inhabit the Earth now and those who will follow us on the Earth.”
“I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.”
“If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.”

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