"The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it."

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Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1963). “The dark traveler”

Josephine Winslow Johnson

#Humble Quotes #Pride Quotes #Young Quotes

“It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?”
“Every year is vital in the life of a child.”
“When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.”
“The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations--there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole.--an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself--is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations.”

Source : Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1843). “History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Germany, Switzerland, Etc”, p.341
“Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.”
“The careful rearer of the ductile human plant can instil his own religion, and surround the soul by such a moral atmosphere, as shall become to its latest day the air it breathes.”
“Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'.”

Source : Kelly Perdew (2013). “Take Command: 10 Leadership Principles I Learned in the Military and put to Wrok for Donald Trump”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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