"We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along."

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Mignon McLaughlin

#Giving Up Quotes #Self Quotes #Should Quotes

“No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.”
“Advertising is the voice of capital. We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it. The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the era of digital communications.”

Source : "If You Like FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd and Van Jones, You'll Love Free Press Co-Founder Robert McChesney" by Seton Motley, www.newsbusters.org. November 5, 2009.
“I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.”
“I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.”

Source : Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.148, Simon and Schuster
“It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.”
“We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.”
“Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.”
“My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.”

Source : "Dracula's Daughter", 1936.

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