"Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made."

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Source : "Interests: charity work, skydiving" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2001.

Joseph J. Ellis

#Mistake Quotes #Made Quotes #Life Mistakes Quotes

“It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.”
“I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere that our paintings would stay forever." So this idea came to me. I said, "She's right, we should have a place to keep them, and not only Iranian art works, but also of foreign artists."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Allah gave the Qur'an to a very special man, who passed it on to us, for the rest of all our days.”

Source : "A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden". Book by Dawud Wharnsby, 2011.
“If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day.”

Source : "Mark Wahlberg: 'The first thing I do each day is pray'" by Gabrielle Donnelly, www.catholic.org. December 28, 2010.
“The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.”

Source : Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.”

Source : Benedetto Croce (1942). “Freedom: Its Meaning”
“Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs, And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge. Be not afraid To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.”
“I'm always happy for people when I see God blessing them the way he's blessed me.”

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