"Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Tree Quotes #Growing Quotes #Shade Quotes

“By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.”
“No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.”
“If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.”
“It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.”
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”

Source : "'Was heisst Denken?' ('What is Called Thinking?')". Book by Martin Heidegger, translated by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray, 1968.
“It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'”
“Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.”
“I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.”

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