"I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter."

-- Anne Lamott

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.”
“I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.”
“The biggest challenge in working together is simply listening.”
“Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.”
“Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.”
“'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ...advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the Lasker Awards, an American version of the Nobel Prize. ...and Memorial Sloan Kettering trustees.”
“With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.”
“A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.537

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