"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility."

-- Barbara Jordan

#Philosophy Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Excuse Quotes

“Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary.”

Source : "Ribery: Messi is in a class of his own" by Mark Doyle, www.goal.com. April 21, 2013.
“God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1901). “Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay”
“Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.”
“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.”
“For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.”
“I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.”
“Every pain has a gain behind it”
“Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.”

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