"On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time."

-- Jacques Barzun

#Hands Quotes #Two Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.”
“Maybe thatâ€™s why Iâ€™ve made it as far as I have â€“ 2,521 miles. If I ran to a doctor every time I got a little cyst or abrasion Iâ€™d still be in Nova Scotia. Or else Iâ€™d never have started. Iâ€™ve seen people in so much pain. The little bit of pain Iâ€™m going through is nothing. They canâ€™t shut it off, and I canâ€™t shut down every time I feel a little sore.”
“The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.”
“The older you are, the more you have to offer. Life begins at 40 and it just gets better and better.”
“I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them”
“Perhaps the most important job of a financial advisor is to get their clients in the right place on the efficient frontier in their portfolios. But their No. 2 job, a very close second, is to create portfolios that their clients are comfortable with. Advisors can create the best portfolios in the world, but they won't really matter if the clients don't stay in them.”
“We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.”

Source : "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).
“Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”

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