"True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship is exploitation, and freedom from compassion is cruelty."

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Source : Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.20, Sasquatch Books

Eric Liu

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“I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.”
“That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.”
“All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.”

Source : Aphra Behn (2014). “Behn Five Plays”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.”
“The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell ... Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”
“The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics
“Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.”

Source : Entry in the journal for July 23, 1875. "The Walk With God". Book by Julia Ward Howe, 1919.
“Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.”

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