"Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality."

-- Elizabeth Hardwick

#Determination Quotes #Race Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.”
“A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once the light goes out in the nation's soul.”
“The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]”
“And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.”
“In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.”
“Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.”
“Christ's mission is to release the divine into our conscious knowing. He awakens the impulse in man to rise above his lower nature and be aware of his higher nature that dwells within.”

Source : Lecture, Emmanuel, God with Us, April 6, 1969.
“It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.”

Source : "Exiled author Ma Jian banned from visiting China" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

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