Quotes
Authors
Horace Walpole

"What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion."

-- Horace Walpole

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“Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times...even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated.”
“I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell.”
“And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.”
“If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.”
“He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.”
“Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.”
“You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.”
“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.”

Source : Gene Sharp (2011). “From Dictatorship to Democracy”, p.26, Profile Books

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