"Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat."

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Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Sacrifice Quotes #People Quotes #Ego Quotes

“The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.”

Source : "UNA Greater Philadelphia: U.S. Should Fund the U.N. in Full and On Time!" by Louis Bolling, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2017.
“I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.”
“I've never stopped learning.”
“Goal we've always had for design at Apple is to create solutions that are inevitable.”
“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”
“Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.”

Source : Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.57, Faber & Faber
“As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.”
“Before Bin Laden did everything but advertise. Yet he had to blow up the Twin Towers just to get the attention of anyone outside the intelligence community. So what did we do? We invaded the wrong country, killed the wrong madman, and too often used the wrong interrogation techniques on the wrong people-all because our leaders lost contact with the truth.”

Source : Richard North Patterson (2012). “The Devil's Light: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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