"Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!"

-- Richard Baxter

#Humility Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“After all these recent events in Russia - "Crimea is ours!," Donbas, all that - I realized I could get back into the business of forecasting. Until now, I didn't feel up to it. I actually was wrong about one thing: I predicted that Putin would be forced to leave soon, but he's still there. Generally, once again - this time not in seventy years but in a very short time - the President and the Duma have reached the stage of such idiocy that they are constantly taking actions which are not simply pointless but harmful, to Russia itself.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.”
“I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.”
“Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them”

Source : Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.153, Sandesh S
“The holy, all-loving, all-powerful, all-mighty, perfectly peaceful and joyful Life of God is waiting to be ours. It is a priceless gift that comes with only one condition: Â His Life can only be had in exchange for our own.”

Source : Eric Ludy (2009). “God's Gift to Women: Discovering the Lost Greatness of Masculinity”, p.106, Multnomah
“The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.”

Source : F. L. Lucas (2015). “The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.”
“Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow Of slight beginnings to important ends.”

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