"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."

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Aristotle

#Philosophical Quotes #Character Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.”
“Girls donâ€™t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, donâ€™t snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while theyâ€™ve given up and try to lure someone else.”
“If these restrictions were necessary, the FDA would have promulgated them in the first place, ... The FDA knows how to evaluate scientific information. Congress knows nothing about that.”
“We are no longer anchored here through the illusions. The Earth itself is transforming to allow us to be unearthed and to make our way differently within the universal community.”
“My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.”
“For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go.”
“Let methods be changed, therefore, if necessary, that prayer may be given its true place. Let there be days set apart for intercession; let the original purpose of the monthly concert of prayer for missions be given a larger place; let missionary prayer cycles be used by families and by individual Christians.”

Source : John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”
“Community is a consequence. It results when people come together to accomplish things that are important to them and succeed. People who are uninvolved cannot feel this connection.”

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