"It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Purpose Quotes #World Quotes #Very Good Quotes

“Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the intense, vibrant color of these worlds. Searing light and intense color seemed somehow embedded in the cultures that I had begun working in, so utterly different from the gray-brown reticence of my New England background. Since then, I have worked predominantly in color.”
“Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.”
“I don't mind wearing a corset; it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.”
“You have to take calculated risks in life.”

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“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
“I detest symbolic protest, as it is an outcry of weak, middle-of-the-road, liberal eunuchs. If an individual feels strongly enough about something to do something about it, then he shouldn't prostitute himself by doing something symbolic. He should get out and do something real.”

Source : "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Two: "Electronics, Sabotage, and Surveillance", p. 62, 1971.
“Selfishâ€” a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.”

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