"The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot."

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Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

Vida Dutton Scudder

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“A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.”
“I should start every game, I should be playing every minute of every match and always be in the team.”

Source : "Bendtner believes he should start 'every game' for Arsenal". www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2009.
“We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.”
“Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.”

Source : Interview, www.rydercup.com. September 18, 2004.
“Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that.”

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“It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.”
“You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?”

Source : "Nostalgic night for Academy Awards". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2012.
“Someone has said that planning is the place where man shows himself most like God. Nothing is more godlike than the planner, the thinker, the organizer. He is the one who draws the blueprint for success. He is the one who builds the roadway on which accomplishment will travel. It is likely that our greatest opportunity is to have a good set of definitely worked-out objectives that are fully believed in and about which firm determinations have been made.”

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