"It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others."

-- Benjamin Hoadly

#Exercise Quotes #Forgiving Quotes #Respecting Others Quotes

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”
“Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.”
“A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.”

Source : David Bodanis (1988). “The secret house: 24 hours in the strange and unexpected world in which we spend our nights and days”, Touchstone Books
“There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.”
“You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.”
“I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.”

Source : "The Last Mission" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2009.
“Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.”

Source : "The Holocaust Industry". Book by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. 2000.
“Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.”

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