"I'm not in the habit of looking back - I leave that till I get old."

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Source : "The Broadview book of Canadian anecdotes". Book edited by Douglas Fethering, p. 131, 1988.

William Mulock

#Habit Quotes #Looking Back Quotes

“Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.”
“To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.”
“Problems are an important part of maturing--meet them straight on. Work them out. It's like the chick in the egg. It has to break through the eggshell on its own. That's how it gains its first strength. If you break the shell for the chick, you end up with a puny little runt.”

Source : Mark Tobey, Wesley Wehr, Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum (1988*). “Mark Tobey, a new look: Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, February 19-March 27, 1988”
“We are a very crafty family.”
“I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.”
“When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting.”
“I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.”
“To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.”

Source : Positive Philosophy (1832-42)

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