"We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution."

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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 61), 1937.

African Spir

#Men Quotes #Goal Quotes #Moral Quotes

“The greatest thing a man can do for himself is to marry someone who is infinitely better than he is. And that's exactly what I did.”

Source : David Finch (2012). “The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband”, p.224, Simon and Schuster
“If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.”
“He had the look of an atheist whoâ€™d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.”

Source : Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.586, Penguin
“I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.”
“We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.”
“Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard”

Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.
“I like to write. Sometimes I'm afraid that I like it too much because when I get into work I don't want to leave it. As a result I'll go for days and days without leaving the house or wherever I happen to be. I'll go out long enough to get papers and pick up some food and that's it. It's strange, but instead of hating writing I love it too much.”
“If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.”

Source : "Jargon File". Book by Eric S. Raymond and Guy L. Steele Jr., 1983.

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