"I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible."

-- Katharine Susannah Prichard

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.”
“I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.”
“We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun.”
“If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.”
“I love my country, and the mental and physical demands of the Navy SEALs was what I had been training for my whole life growing up in Montana. There's a reason Montana produces more SEALs than any other state. As a collegiate athlete, I enjoyed the mental and physical challenges Division I football presented. When a recruiter first told me about the Navy SEALs, I knew it was the right fit.”

Source : "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.
“What it means among other things is the more we learn about the nature of the universe, the nature of creation...if we're not updating what we mean by God...what we mean by the gospel, we're going to have outdated, misleading and actually trivial understandings of those.”

Source : "Mental Off-Roading Radio With Doug Pagitt And Michael Dowd". Interview with Doug Pagitt, John Musick, apprising.org. November 15, 2010.
“We stayed a long, long time, to see you, to meet you, to see you at last.”
“There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.”

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