"Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others."

-- Jonathan Sacks

#Play Quotes #Long Quotes #Mind Quotes

“If you constantly dwell on the past that's where you end up living.”
“Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.”
“In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.”
“History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.”

Source : Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.7, Read Books Ltd
“Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication”
“we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.”
“People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.”
“Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,-\-\it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,-\-\feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy!”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (2008). “Ramona”, p.323, Broadview Press

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