"As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so."

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Source : Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

Emily Greene Balch

#Judging Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Judgment Quotes

“The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so Iâ€™ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, thatâ€™s not accurate. Everythingâ€™s there so I wonâ€™t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.”
“So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.”
“I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.”
“An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.”
“My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.”
“I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.”
“The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?”

Source : Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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