"Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown."

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Source : Louise Imogen Guiney (1897). “Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second”

Louise Imogen Guiney

#Character Quotes #Law Quotes #Broken Quotes

“People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born. And I am turning into a vampire.”
“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
“The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.”

Source : Stephen F. Olford (1972). “The Grace of Giving: A Biblical Study of Christian Stewardship”, p.12, Kregel Publications
“The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.”

Source : Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”
“Death is the surest calculation that can be made.”

Source : Ludwig Büchner (1870). “Force and Matter: Empirico-philosophical Studies, Intelligibly Rendered”, p.35
“In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.”
“Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be.”
“We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern.”

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