"By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being."

-- Ashley Montagu

#Humanity Quotes #Development Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Bad things happen, but you can still live.”
“I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do it myself. So I instituted a suit against the city of Baltimore demanding that the city assessor be specifically ordered to assess the Church for its vast property holdings in the city, and that the city tax collector then be instructed to collect the taxes once the assessment has been made.”
“In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.”
“He is the cheese to my macaroni.”

Source : "Juno". www.imdb.com. 2007.
“British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U.S. embassy.”
“There's no controversy in my way. There's nobody telling me to rap like this or anything.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars, combine to bring about something that could not have happened before and will never happen again. Few people know how to take advantage of these critical moments, unfortunately, and they often pass unnoticed. When someone does recognize them, however, great things happen in the world.”
“I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour's talk. You never see the people again, but the lingering sense of their presence in the world is like the glow of an unseen city at night--makes you feel the teemingness of it all.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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