"A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision."

-- Henry Parry Liddon

#Rejection Quotes #Vision Quotes #Duty Quotes

“I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.”
“Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.”
“Guerrilla marketing aims its message at individuals or, if it must be a group, the smaller the group, the better.”

Source : Jay Conrad Levinson (2007). “Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.”
“I can't lie... My face always gives me away. I'm also pathetically bad at poker!”

Source : "Glamour Inquisitor: Cat Deeley". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. July 14, 2011.
“Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.”
“Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?”
“Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.”

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