"Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything."

-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Cost Quotes #Courtesy Quotes

“The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.”
“The one day you don't go into practice and use that day to the fullest is the one day someone is going to beat you.”
“Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.”
“My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this world. She was a magnet for lost souls, a petite fortress of strength and unconditional love. What this sprightly, silly, lovely woman did from the obscurity of a faded convent in Rust Belt Chicago was to fulfill in a passionate, tireless way the supreme commandment of Jesus' gospel every day of her life.”
“I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art ... in my case, life is always struggling to predominate and art naturally suffers.”

Source : Tina Modotti, Amy Rule (1986). “The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston”
“If women have confidence in themselves, they will have confidence in other women.”
“Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.”
“Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.”

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