"I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free."

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Mike Gayle

#Order Quotes #Temptation Quotes #Feels Quotes

“A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them. The possession of knowledge makes for unjust power over others only if used for that very purpose: a physician or lawyer or clergyman can exploit or humiliate others, or he can be a humanitarian and a benefactor. In any case, it is absurd to conjure up behind anybody who exploits his educated status the existence of an "elite" scheming to oppress the rest of us.”
“Winning means being unafraid to lose.”

Source : Fran Tarkenton, Tad Tuleja (1986). “How to motivate people: the team strategy for success”, Harpercollins
“I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.”
“We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.”
“God has lots of children in the church today; I'm honestly not sure He has many friends.”
“Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.”
“The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.”
“When I breathe, This sound in my chest Lonelier than the winter wind”

Source : Takuboku Ishikawa (2011). “Romaji Diary and Sad Toys”, p.134, Tuttle Publishing

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