"We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness."

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Source : James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

James Martineau

#Selfishness Quotes #Suffrage Quotes #Meanness Quotes

“Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!”
“I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.”

Source : "A Scrubbed Toe in the Race" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2010.
“Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.”
“Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.”
“Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.”
“The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism.”
“I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough . . .”
“The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal feelings, create a harmony of temper, favorable to a sense of justice and a habit of moderation in our social intercourse.”

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