"We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves."

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Source : 1976 'Now Let Us Address The Main Question: Bicentennial of What?', in the NewYork Times, 3 Jul.

Archibald MacLeish

#Liberty Quotes #Belief Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.”
“One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.”
“I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.”
“With kids, they don't do what you want them to do when you want them to do it. Organizations don't necessarily, either. You've got to listen. You've got to learn how to influence.”
“When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.”
“To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.”

Source : Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.491
“Met someone who works at the zoo. Apparently the panda is a nasty animal.”

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