"...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and community. Now people live more or less on their own in a small house, jealously guarding their goods and planning to acquire more, with a notice on the gate that says, 'Beware of the Dog."

-- Jean Vanier

#Dog Quotes #Taken Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“The point of the feminist movement wasnt simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no ones worth was judged on their take-home salary.”
“In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.”
“The music stuff is just a hobby.”
“I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.”
“For nothing is evil in the beginning.”
“And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.”

Source : Thomas Parnell, Ambrose Philips (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.365
“I don't know anything and neither do you.”
“What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.”

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