"There is not a moment without some duty."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Moments Quotes #Duty Quotes

“Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.”

Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.114, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'”
“Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.”

Source : Lady Murasaki, Murasaki Shikibu, Arthur Waley (2000). “The Tale of Genji”, p.7, Courier Corporation
“One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.”
“At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.”

Source : Paul Hawken's Commencement Address at University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.
“I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.”
“It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.”
“I make it a point to go home every weekend so I can meet with Georgians and hear from them directly.”

Source : "Johnny Isakson Says Sequestration Not A Concern In Georgia, But Constituents Disagree" by Amanda Terkel and Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.

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