"The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding."

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Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

Lord Acton

#Heart Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.”

Source : "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.
“Re-energize your soul... Walk with Mother nature.”
“And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.”
“I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.”
“The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.
“Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?”
“If you told me two years I would miss the greatest basketball game ever to hang out with Nathan Lane, I'd say, 'You're crazy!'”
“But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.”

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