"Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women's bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character."

-- Jack McDevitt

#Sorry Quotes #Integrity Quotes #Character Quotes

“The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root meaning of 'a poisoned arrow.' All organic life is struck by the arrows of real and psychic poisons. This is understood by any true, that is to say, not self-deluding, spiritual path.”
“I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.”
“It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.”

Source : Lauren Willig (2011). “The Deception of the Emerald Ring”, p.13, Allison & Busby
“Leaders are defined by the decisions they make ... Leaders rise and fall by the decisions they make.”
“Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.”
“Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 04, 2011
“Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food, shelter or clothing... raises manual labor that might be drudgery to the plane of intelligent effort that is always self-respecting...Home economics is not one department, in the sense in which dairying or entomology or soils is a department. It is not a single speciality... Many technical and educational departments will grow out of it as time goes on.”
“Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.”

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