"A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits."

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Source : Lois Lenski (2011). “Texas Tomboy”, p.197, Open Road Media

Lois Lenski

#Men Quotes #Hands Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets ***** meets politics - it's unlike anything I've ever seen in my life. And slapstick humor, communism; I mean, what doesn't it have? It's crazy. I didn't go to Cannes, but I guess the first cut was three and a half hours or something?”

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“We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.”

Source : Brother Lawrence (2006). “The Practice of the Presence of God, and the Spiritual Maxims”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.
“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.”
“There is an aura of victory that surrounds a person of goodwill.”

Source : James L. Fisher (1984). “Power of the presidency”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
“The unraveling that I experienced much earlier in the Vietnam war than many people think, was due to the immediate foxhole experiences. But once I got back home and began to follow the war on TV and in the press I began to see this enormous con game - I can't think of any other word for it - that government and the military was foisting on the American people, especially on the young men of my generation, and even worse, the young men of my generation who weren't particularly economically or intellectually privileged.”

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“It has to go to the level of emotional connection, where you feel without it you're lost.”
“There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed.”
“Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.”

Source : "The Man Who Revitalized 'Doctor Who' And 'Sherlock'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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