"Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if."

-- William Shakespeare

#Virtue Quotes #Negotiation Quotes #Peacemaker Quotes

“A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.32, Cambridge University Press
“Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.”
“At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'”
“To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.”
“The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.”
“Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.”
“I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines,”

Source : "Alternate Take: Levon Helm" by Tracy K. Smith, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2009.
“I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.”

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