"Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends."

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Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.235, Transaction Publishers

Isabel Paterson

#School Quotes #Omission Quotes #Long Quotes

“When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.”
“Everything has a price. It's just what your willing to pay for it.”
“With boys you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It's all there. The fruit flies hovering over their waste can, the hamster trying to escape to cleaner air, the bedrooms decorated in Early Bus Station Restroom.”
“Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.”
“If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.”

Source : Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.6, Paul & Company Pub Consortium
“When you're a guest star, you kinda feel like you have to prove something. Everyone else is on the show and has started establishing relationships. And you're just hoping that they're happy you were cast.”

Source : "Interview: Andrea Gabriel from ‘Lost’". Interview with Emma Loggins, www.fanbolt.com. March 2, 2010.
“Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.”
“There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get”

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