"We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself."

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Source : Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.33, University of Illinois Press

Jane Addams

#Forget Quotes #Conviction Quotes #Results Quotes

“I have always had a problem with my weight.”
“I am an intelligent drunk because an intelligent drunk carries his liquor with him”
“And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.”
“I agree that all kids of all colors love hip-hop. My point in writing the book was to raise questions about the ways the hip-hop generation and the millennium generation, both who have lived their entire lives in post-segregation America, are processing race in radically different ways than any generation of Americans. I think they have a lot to tell us as a country about ways of addressing race matters.”
“Training was one thing, reality another.”
“I think things are more confused now than in several years, and I think the reason is that the governor is vacillating on it. He's all for it, but he's not doing anything about it. I am certain that his behavior is at the center of the Twins' frustration.”
“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”

Source : "The English Patient". www.imdb.com. 1996.
“You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.”

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