"Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself."

-- Rene Dubos

#Civilization Quotes #Pestilence Quotes #Culture Quotes

“I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.”

Source : "Catherine Opie: Bearing Witness and the Sublime". Interview with Tracey Harnish, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 03, 2013.
“Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.”
“You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.”

Source : DAVID VISCOTT (1971). “FEEL FREE”
“Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.”

Source : "Trump's Criticism Of Judges Out Of Line With Past Presidents". Interview with Nina Totenberg, kucb.org. February 11, 2017.
“I travel every single day, but I make it a point to hit the gym. I want to look good for the summer.”
“I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.”

Source : Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.27
“Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.”
“We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.”

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