"Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow."

-- Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

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“To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely more power than a need accepted.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.143, iUniverse
“I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.”

Source : Tama Janowitz (1991). “Slaves of New York”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“Gymnastics is definitely my job, but the great thing about that is I love my job.”
“People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”
“At a time when the public is sour on politicians, have no use for them, Bill Clinton has risen to a different level. Bill Clinton is endlessly interesting.”
“When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.”

Source : "Q&A: The 'Mighty' Fine Carla Gugino And David Boreanaz". Interview With Jenni Miller, www.mtv.com. October 21, 2011.
“I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is, whether the maker of all things, or the fragrance of all things, or just a dream in our own hearts, I have not the art to know. Neither have you, I believe; nor any man, nor any spirit of our humble stature.”

Source : "Sirius" by Olaf Stapledon, (Chapter IX), 1944.
“We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America”

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