"The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas."

-- Jane Addams

#Wisdom Quotes #Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our original spiritual and moral substance, which grew out of the same essential experience of humanity. I believe that this is the only way to achieve a genuine renewal of our sense of responsibility for ourselves and for the world. And at the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper understanding among cultures that will enable them to work together in a truly ecumenical way to create a new order for the world.”
“Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.”
“Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.”
“I had a ball doing Harry Potter.”
“Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.”

Source : Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.
“I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one.”
“I'm an Angus King independent.”
“And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.”

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