"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Georg Brandes

#Lying Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.”
“My definition of God is: the ever-present essence of love.”
“People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.”

Source : Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”

Source : Address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention, delivered 26 August 2002, Nashville, Tennessee
“Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those they disagree with. A society that was certain, certain beyond all certainty, that putting its citizens in death camps was wrong, would never put people in death camps. Such things are only possible when you're open to new ideas.”
“We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.”

Source : "Seven Quotes From Gordhan's Mid-term Budget Speech". www.enca.com. October 26, 2016.
“My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.”
“All it takes is a single moment.”

Source : Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.38, Candlewick Press

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