"The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness."

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Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1874). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.373

Sara Coleridge

#Self Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.”

Source : B. E. Carpenter, Alan Mathison Turing, Michael Woodger (1986). “A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers”, The MIT Press
“We're [Clinton Foundation] trying to get rapid tests that give you results when you're right there on site at an affordable price. Ninety percent of the HIV-positive people in the world don't know they have the infection. An enormous amount of infections are being perpetrated by people who don't know they themselves are HIV positive.”
“And what is the greatest number? Number one.”
“We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.”
“I always tell people there's nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that's when we breakthrough usually - most people don't proactively breakthrough - they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn't feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you're melted down you can recast your life in a new way.”
“You can’t hide secrets from the future with math.”

Source : Song: Secrets From the Future, Album: Secrets from the Future, 2007
“I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.”
“It is a great truth, " God reigns," and therefore grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord; and, therefore, no sinner on earth need ever despair.”

Source : ICHABOD SPENCER (1855). “A PASTOR'S SKETCHES”, p.407

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