"Without dignity, identity is erased."

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Laura Hillenbrand

#Identity Quotes #Dignity Quotes

“The problem with most religious people is they try to earn grace but you canâ€™t earn it. And as long as youâ€™re trying to earn it by works, you donâ€™t receive it. At some point you just have to stop trying to earn it and just receive it.”
“I thought architecture would offer a mix of the artful and practical. It seemed cooler than some of the other options in the university. The lights were on in the architecture school when I got out of rehearsal at night. And I thought the men were handsome.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs.”
“People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is writing a novel right now. No one wants to revise.”
“My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldnâ€™t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard peopleâ€™s thoughts. Of course, she couldnâ€™t admit I was literally hearing peopleâ€™s thoughts because that just didnâ€™t fit into her world.”
“Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.”
“Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.”

Source : "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.
“In many ways we've become the Babylon of the modern era. We learned our lessons at the feet of Nebuchadnezzar himself. It's little wonder that we've lived to see Bible reading and the display of the Ten Commandments removed from public view and creation science excluded from classroom instruction. None of this is new. It has its roots in Babylon, and thus reveals that the book of Daniel is one of the most relevant books of the Bible in our world today.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com

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