"We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences."

-- Susan Rice

#Luxury Quotes #Risk Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“All field sports people are doing is turning an inevitable necessity into a pleasure. If the animal is going to be killed anyway, why not take pleasure in it?”
“Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.”
“The beauty of my sport is that you can do it from anywhere.”

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“If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.”
“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

Source : Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33
“I had always imagined that ClichÃ© was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.”

Source : Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”
“I want to do the reverse of what people would think.”
“A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of the self, an admission of impotence, an offense against generosity and justice. Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.”

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