"As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self."

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Source : Eden Phillpotts (1918). “A Shadow Passes”

Eden Phillpotts

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“Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.”

Source : Malalai Joya (2009). “A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice”, p.76, Simon and Schuster
“I had an enormous complex about my looks. I thought I was ugly and I was afraid nobody would marry me.”
“Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.”
“To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'”
“Authenticity is fundamental, more fundamental than spiritual enlightenment. Without authenticity, no genuine spiritual enlightenment is possible. Authenticity is the state of being committed to truth. Truth is simple. And no matter how simply a truth is stated, only those who have walked the path of understanding and evolution on their own can know and understand it authentically. The path of truth is the path least traveled. Authenticity is the clarity of being in which there is no self-deceit.”

Source : Source: evolutionarymystic.wordpress.com
“So acoustic, I don't even need a pick.”
“One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it”

Source : Quoted in Howard Eves, Mathematical Circles Revisited (1971)
“I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.”

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