"Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves."

-- Edward Kennedy

#Giving Quotes #Faults Quotes #Common Quotes

“A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner”
“By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.”
“BDS represents three words that will help bring about the defeat of Zionist Israel and victory for Palestine.”

Source : "Destructive 'Agnosticism'" by Yitzhak Santis, www.haaretz.com. November 26, 2010.
“As soon as you start publishing, you are the star and so people see you that way.”
“I like being unconventional.”
“A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion events that may be beyond men's control. Doing what has to be done to win, men perform acts that alter the very soil in which society's roots are nourished.”

Source : Bruce Catton (1985). “The Civil War”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.”

Source : Mark Rothko (1997). “Mark Rothko”, Stewart Tabori & Chang
“Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.”

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