"As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be."

-- Bohumil Hrabal

#Knowing Quotes #Forgive Me Quotes #Forgiving Quotes

“I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete; it is spare and alone, but perfect in its soltitude. I will be the desert.”
“Light weight ... Yeah buddy!”
“Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all.”
“Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.39, Broadview Press
“Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it's spent on me.”

Source : "Op-Ed: Cut Health Care Spending On The Elderly". "Talk of the Nation" with Rebecca Roberts, www.npr.org. August 17, 2009.
“Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.”
“There's so many gay rappers... They probably dis me cause I'm the straight one.”
“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.”

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