"Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself."

-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.”
“Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.”
“Snowboarding was everything that I knew. That's what I did and I poured everything I had into it. I thought that being successful and achieving my goals would go hand-in-hand with being happy.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.”
“Medal of Honor belongs to every man and woman who gives us the freedom today to be able to hold our flag and hold our heads up high and say we have the greatest country in the world. And that goes with the men and women in the past, and the men and women of today, and the men and women of the future. As long as Mike Thornton lives, that medal will always stand for all them. Not for me. Not for what I've done, but for what I was trained to do and what they have been trained to do to give us our freedom today.”
“Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get.”
“There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.”

Source : "Collections of the New-York Historical Society" by I. Riley, 1821.
“More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.”

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