"Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame."

-- Jose Rizal

#Selfishness Quotes #Shame Quotes #Cowardice Quotes

“Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.”
“The Petal table is a flower that is always in bloom.”
“The relationship I have with my kids is beautiful.”
“Rock 'n' roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.”
“The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.”
“To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. (...) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.”

Source : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.204, John Wiley & Sons
“A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.”
“I think women have brought a lot of life back to the sport-first, because a lot of people doubted women could actually do it well. Two, part of it is that old fascination some people have in watching athletes risk injury to win.”

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