"We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human."

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Frances Hardinge

#Hero Quotes #Forgiving Quotes #Being Human Quotes

“The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.”
“Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.”
“Creatively, I really feel like I gave it my all, and I feel ready to let her go,”

Source : "Sandra Oh to Exit 'Grey's Anatomy' (Exclusive)" Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2013.
“Believe me, nothing is trivial”

Source : "Fictional character: Eric Draven". "The Crow", 1994.
“It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.”

Source : Donald Rumsfeld (2011). “Known and Unknown: A Memoir”, p.45, Penguin
“Jeff Klein, one of the earliest champions of Conscious Capitalism, offers a highly practical yet profoundly intuitive blueprint for achieving your purpose-and making a difference at work. You will return to Working for Good again and again. It belongs on your desk and in your heart.”
“The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.”

Source : "The age of indifference" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.
“There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit. Considering the city of New York's financial shortfall.”

Source : The New York Times, p. 69, April 25, 1971.

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