"Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life."

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Source : Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”

Georg Simmel

#Respect Quotes #Justice Quotes #Spheres Quotes

“I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I was always sort of oriented towards here's Australia and here's America and here's the Pacific.”

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“MODERATION.SMALL HELPINGS. SAMPLE A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING. THESE ARE THE SECRETS OF HAPPINESS AND GOOD HEALTH.”
“Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.”
“I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.”

Source : "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 894, 1993.
“I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.”
“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, Â are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.”
“All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.”

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