"hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater."

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Source : Dervla Murphy (1995). “Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir”, p.73, The Overlook Press

Dervla Murphy

#Hate Quotes #Hatred Quotes #Damage Quotes

“In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us most days is someone's rude to us, or we accidentally insult someone. Social faux pas is the worst thing that happens to most people, most days, so we've got to concentrate on that, really.”
“If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.”

Source : George Whitefield (1772). “The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Original Papers and Letters”, p.27
“Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.”
“Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.”
“I've had more people come up to me about 'Saving Silverman' than anything else. That and 'That Thing You Do!' But 'Saving Silverman' is the one I get most often. And I love that.”

Source : "Steve Zahn" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 03, 2007.
“Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.196
“I am the president now, the president of everybody.”
“The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.”

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