"It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character."

-- Eric Holder

#Integrity Quotes #Character Quotes #Past Quotes

“Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.”
“The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.”
“Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.”

Source : FaceBook post by Thierry Henry from Oct 10, 2012
“Turn things around sometimes and look at life from a different perspective.”
“Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.”
“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
“When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.”
“The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.”

Source : Jung Chang (2003). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.518, Simon and Schuster

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