"Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty."

-- Shirley Hazzard

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Organization Quotes

“The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.”
“I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.”
“A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.”
“The will of man is by his reason swayed.”
“A bargain is a bargain.”
“To perceive is to suffer.”
“Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.”

Source : Ezra Pound, Bai Li (1917). “Lustra of Ezra Pound, with Earlier Poems”
“As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.”

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