"In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own."

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Source : Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

Virginia Postrel

#Responsibility Quotes #People Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt. The subject must attain aptly not only the truth of his affirmation but also its aptness. And that in turn requires not only the proper operation of one's perception, memory, inference, etc., but also that one deploy such competences through competent epistemic risk assessment.”
“Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.”
“What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.”
“I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever.”
“Death is not going to hold down Huell Howser.”
“Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.”
“No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.”

Source : Thomas Boston (1767). “A view of the covenant of grace from the sacred records: Wherein the parties in that covenant, the making of it; its parts ... and the administration thereof, are distinctly considered. Together with the trial of a saving personal in-being in it, and the way of instating sinners therein ...”, p.91
“There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.”

Source : "Who said that ?". www.mirror.co.uk. February 04, 2012.

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