"Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives."

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Alfred North Whitehead

#Extravagance Quotes #Harbour Quotes #Certain Quotes

“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.”
“There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.”
“I am inspired by positive people who have overcome difficult obstacles, motivational/spiritual books, nature, and my kids.”

Source : "Actor Andrea Navedo – Overcoming a tough upbringing and staying healthy and balanced". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.”

Source : "Exiled author Ma Jian banned from visiting China" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.
“I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn't very far.”
“I'm suddenly worried people will think that I believe their religion can be summed up on four sex-obsessed sentences.”
“One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.”
“... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.”

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