"I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice."

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Muriel Spark

#Justice Quotes #Causes Quotes #Injustice Quotes

“I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.”

Source : "Brothers who would be king". Interview With Vincent Moss, www.mirror.co.uk. August 29, 2010.
“We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.”

Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2004). “Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery”
“That's what keeps me humble because I know my background, know what my mother went through. I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do. My mom always says and my friends all say, â€™You're just a very low-maintenance guyâ€™. I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.”
“I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.”
“It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a compulsion to do it. I just had to in a way that I can't really explain.”
“Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions of his fate, of his attitude toward God and fellow man, of his individual and collective responsibility and of the sense of his pilgrimage on earth.”
“In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens brought back the interest in acoustic music. Today, we don't hear anything.”
“I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.”

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