"Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination."

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Source : William George Jordan (1910). “The Power of Purpose”

William George Jordan

#Inspirational Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes

“Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.”
“Don't ever, ever, ever give up, because you're here for a reason, even if it's just to laugh at cats on the internet.”
“I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.”
“Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.”
“The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independently of all thinking, and thus antithetical to the sensible world.... The world of thought is the universal, the timeless and spaceless, the absolutely necessary, whereas the world of sense is the contingent, the changing and moving appearance which somehow indicates or symbolizes it.”
“No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.”
“It occured to me that we will never be young again.”
“I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.”

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