"Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others."

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Source : Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.240, Hachette UK

Jostein Gaarder

#Feelings Quotes #Acting Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.”
“I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.”
“Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.”
“At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown,”

Source : "'Father of the internet': Why we must fight for its freedom" by Vinton Cerf, www.cnn.com. November 30, 2012.
“Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and -- if it does exist -- they much less believe that it has any practical application. . . . The techniques are in widespread use by media, advertising and public relations agencies, industrial and commercial corporations, and by the Federal government itself.”
“On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.”

Source : Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson
“In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.”
“I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.”

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