"Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it."

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Source : 'Fortitude' (1913) bk.1, ch. 1

Hugh Walpole

#Inspirational Quotes #Matter Quotes

“We are all Malaysians. This is the bond that unites us. Let us always remember that unity is our fundamental strength as a people and as a nation.”
“My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.”
“Shia phobia or Sunni phobia...we never hear about this. They murder each other!”
“The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not altogether useless, have far less virtue and efficacy than are commonly ascribed to them; and the want of them will never be with men of sound discernment a decisive objection to any plan which exhibits the leading characters of a good government.”
“I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you canâ€™t get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. Thatâ€™s what you canâ€™t get here.”
“By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature--for instance in a biological survey of evolution--we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.”
“the relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by a deep mutual respect for the utterly unknown. No two men saw less eye to eye and the result was unexpected harmony, as if a dog and a fish had mysteriously become friends and were proud each of the other's remarkable dissimilarity to himself.”
“I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, weâ€™ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we donâ€™t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, weâ€™ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.”

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