"Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, â€” by deeds, not years..."

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Source : Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1872). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.544, London : [s.n.]

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Running Quotes #Mean Quotes #Years Quotes

“Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.”
“What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.”
“A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.”
“Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system”

Source : Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.2, University of Chicago Press
“We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.”
“It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.”
“Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.”
“Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.”

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