"The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds."

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Source : Harold J. Laski (2014). “Authority in the Modern State (Works of Harold J. Laski)”, p.55, Routledge

Harold Laski

#Wisdom Quotes #Real Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.”
“Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.”

Source : Song: G.R.I.N.D
“Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating moral critiques of American excesses, and so on, and also a communal role, in terms of building community as the country moved westward to the role my own Catholic Church played in assimilating generations of immigrants.”
“Waves keep coming, that's the one thing you can count on in life”
“I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.”
“It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.”
“I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.”
“I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.”

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