"When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own."

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Source : Bret Harte (2016). “The Argonauts of North Liberty”, p.56, The Floating Press

Bret Harte

#Honesty Quotes #Mind Quotes #Speak Quotes

“Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.”
“When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.”
“Did A tell you your eyes remind me of blown glass? I can see your soul through those eyes, Amy. They get darker when youâ€™re trying to be sexy and shine when you smile. And when you think youâ€™re in trouble you blink double the amount that you usually do. And when your sad the corners of your eyes turn down. I miss your eyes. And I donâ€™t want the sad ones to be my last memory of you.”
“I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.”
“Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.”

Source : "'A revolution is not a bed of roses': Fidel Castro in his own words" by Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2016.
“I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.”
“No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.”

Source : John Knox (1941). “The Man Christ Jesus”
“When I ask people to contemplate selflessness, the sometimes react as if I've asked them to put their house on the market or give away all their money. If there was a self that existed in the way we think, discovering selflessness would be like putting our house on the market. But in the Buddhist tradition, the discovery of selflessness is called "completely joyful." It's not called "the raw end of the deal," or "I'd rather go back to bed," or "This is scary and depressing."”

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