"Inevitably we start by thinking that if our work is any good, we'll get money. It's as we would if you started up a business or if you work in another profession."

-- Alice Mattison

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“You may find that making a difference for others makes the biggest difference in you.”
“I'm not interested to change about the government. I'm interested to change the conditions for the people. So, yes, I talk a lot. But I think this is the only way for Italy in this moment.”
“The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.”
“The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.”
“Master, I'm afraid. I am, truly. This place scares me. At home, I know who I am, what to do. I'm the Warden's daughter, I know where I stand. But this is a dangerous place, full of pitfalls. All my life, I've known it was waiting for me, but now I'm not sure I can face it. They'll want to absorb me, make me one of them, and I won't change. I won't! I want to stay me." Jared sighed and she saw his dark gaze was fixed on the veiled window. "Claudia, you're the bravest person I know. And no one will change you. You will rule here, though it won't be easy...”
“For the Christian man to reason that God does not want him involved in politics because there are too many evil men in government is as insensitive as for a Christian doctor to turn his back on an epidemic because there are too many germs there.”

Source : Mark O. Hatfield (1971). “Conflict and conscience”
“The wonder is not that there should be obstacles and sufferings in this world, but that there should be law and order, beauty and joy, goodness and love. The idea of God that humans have in their being is the wonder of all wonders. They have felt in the depths of their lives that what appears as imperfect is the manifestation of the perfect; just as a person who has an ear for music realized the perfection of a song, while in fact he or she is only listening to a succession of notes.”

Source : "Man and God: Passages Chosen and Arranged to Express a Mood about the Human and the Divine".
“I am not my own light unto myself.”

Source : "Dialogues on Metaphysics". Book by Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogue III, 1688.

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