"When did one man ever civilize a people?"

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Source : John Lothrop Motley (1856). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: In three volumes”, p.23

John Lothrop Motley

#Men Quotes #People Quotes

“I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.”
“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”
“5% of women have true multiple ***** only through intercourse and these women typically find oral sex uncomfortable.”
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us. Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sickness, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death-can take that love away....”
“I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.”

Source : Letter to "The Times", (p. 11), April 26, 1968).
“To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man.”
“To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.”
“The action of Mind (thought) plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form.”

Source : Thomas Troward (2015). “The Power in You: The Definitive Thomas Troward”, p.23, Penguin

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