"The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities."

-- Mary Ellen Chase

#Real Quotes #Passion Quotes #Issues Quotes

“Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.”
“Do your best and God will do the rest”
“I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a clichÃ©, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.”
“Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.”

Source : John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.131, tredition
“Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?”
“The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.”
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.”
“All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.”

Source : "To hell with Perry Mason". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

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