"He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise."

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Source : 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' (1857) pt. 2, ch. 2

Thomas Hughes

#Ideas Quotes #Want Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.”
“[R]eal charity doesn't mean giving away someone else's money.”
“Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.”
“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
“I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours.”

Source : "At Home With Myself in a World of AIDS" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.
“The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent - that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgement.”
“Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature...”
“What a deformed thief this fashion is.”

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