"Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic."

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Source : John Rawls, Erin Kelly (2001). “Justice as Fairness: A Restatement”, p.30, Harvard University Press

John Rawls

#Judgement Quotes #Serious Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.”
“I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.”
“I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.”
“If you're not invited to the party, throw your own.”
“O.J. Simpson was primarily interested in O.J. His rise to fame in the late '60s coincided with the period where black athletes were more outspoken and political than in any era. You're talking about the generation of black athletes that came about after Jackie Robinson. Athletes after that were just happy to find a place in sports. But when you got to the mid-'60s, you had athletes like Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali, who were very outspoken on the issues of race and civil rights.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.”
“There is no time like the pleasant.”

Source : "The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom". Book by Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant and Addison Mizner, 1905.
“What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Aug 02, 2012

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