"A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success."

-- Otto von Bismarck

#Men Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Generosity Quotes

“Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.”

Source : Margaret Millar (2016). “A Stranger in My Grave”, p.45, Soho Press
“Some people say Im attractive. I say I agree.”
“the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures, although I am now busily learning the alphabet of their language, so that I may some day read what these pictures mean.”
“Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.”
“Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.”
“Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.”
“Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.”

Source : "Markham v. Prodigy". TIME magazine, November 23, 1925.
“I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.”

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