"People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching."

-- William Maxwell

#Humility Quotes #People Quotes #Serious Quotes

“I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.”
“As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something,”
“I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.”
“Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.”

Source : George Henry Borrow (1848). “Gypsies of Spain”, p.27
“There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.”
“The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice system (or saddled with criminal records) is not - as many argue - just a symptom of poverty or poor choices, but rather evidence of a new racial caste system at work.”
“I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.”
“Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.”

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