"An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated."

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Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1991). “Awakenings”

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#Mean Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Deeds Quotes

“My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home.”
“Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you've done to other people.”
“But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.”
“On the other side of resistance is the flow.”
“If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.”
“All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.”

Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.24, Anza Publishing
“Transformed people transform people.”

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