"We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves."

-- Luc de Clapiers

#Thinking Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.”
“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”
“Only if a child feels right can he think right.”
“You would quit the Order for her? Niko asked, the youngest only behind Dante, and a warrior who relished his duty perhaps even more than Dante had himself. I would quit breathing for her, if she asked it of me.”
“In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional level. For the first time in history, grain production is dropping in a geographic region with nothing in sight to arrest the decline. Each day now brings 10,000 more people to feed and less irrigation water with which to feed them.”
“... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.”
“Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.”

Source : "How to be a Good Teacher". Book by Rupal Jain, p. 138, 2013.
“I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.”

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