"If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end."

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Source : A. C. Grayling (2003). “Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA

A.C. Grayling

#Regret Quotes #Giving Quotes #World Quotes

“It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.”
“Struggle isn't fun but it's an opportunity to be brave.”
“Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.”
“Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.”

Source : Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.277
“In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.”
“I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes me that this is very different to the way it was for me, which was that I wanted to understand photography and the world and myself.”
“Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered.”

Source : Jim Holt (2012). “Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer”, p.256, Profile Books
“From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman in Parliament who demands access to affordable reproductive health services for women who need them most, daring knows no scale or status.”

Source : "Women Are Daring, Will You Join Them?" by Purnima Mane, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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