"The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes."

-- Carl F. H. Henry

#Long Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Advancement Quotes

“Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.”

Source : Mercedes Lackey (2011). “Beauty and the Werewolf”, p.159, LUNA
“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”
“Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.”

Source : "Pakistan must not be abandoned" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2001.
“Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace.”
“I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.”
“With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because it's filtered through this crazy yenta gossip line. It's impossible to know anything.”

Source : interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 1998.
“I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.”

Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity”, p.241, Random House
“We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it.”

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