"Creeds are not straitjackets, but guardrails that keep us safe."

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Stephen Nichols

#Safe Quotes #Creeds Quotes

“The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.”
“When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.”
“It should be emphasized that the balagtasan also served a higher social and political function. More than mere entertainment, it enhanced the tradition role of the poet as purveyor of truth for the people.”
“For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.”

Source : Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1961). “Stray Reflections: A Note-book of Allama Iqbal”
“Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.”
“Iran is isolated on its nuclear program and support for terrorism.”

Source : Briefing by National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes on Libya and the Middle East, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 10, 2011.
“What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it.”
“Therefore, philosophy does not give sense in mind happiness. It keeps in mind the only truth. However, it is very possible that the truth may be painful, may be distressing, may be destructive of happiness or makes it impossible. Religion, unlike philosophy, is under the category of the useful one. It promises happiness and says what it is necessary to do and what it is necessary to be to deserve or to obtain it. Consequently, illusion is more important than truth if it gets happiness.”

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