"The only measure of what you believe is what you do."

-- Ashley Montagu

#Believe Quotes #Deeds Quotes

“You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, its hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.”

Source : "Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. December 20, 2010.
“The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.”

Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee
“We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.”
“The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.”

Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee
“Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old as of today is parasitism. We are a people of vultures living on the labor and good fortune of the rest of the world.”
“I think true love is never blind, / But rather brings an added light; / An inner vision quick to find / The beauties hid from common sight.”

Source : Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.37
“If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.”

Source : Song: Wake Me Up On Judgment Day
“To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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