"The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service"

-- Idries Shah

#Path Quotes #Found Quotes #Human Service Quotes

“Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead.”
“It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.”
“Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.”
“Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.”
“Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is...”

Source : Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.35, Mind Melodies
“The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is not one of submission, but of a contest for truth.”

Source : Karl Jaspers (1965). “The idea of the university”
“A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been living upon the mercies shown by others, and by the chances obtainable, and have suffered there from, so we will in the future suffer if an effort is not made now to adjust our own affairs.”

Source : Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.48, The Majority Press
“Obviously, once you're finished, you're like, "Okay, I have to make this a movie now, and I need people - bodies to play these parts, and actors to bring this thing beyond a script." But when I was writing it, I wasn't thinking of actors; I was really thinking about creating three-dimensional characters.”

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