"Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility."

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Source : "Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy". Book by Simon Blackburn, 1999.

Simon Blackburn

#Responsibility Quotes #Culture Quotes #Very Good Quotes

“I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too”

Source : "R.v.R. : Being an Account of the Last Years and the Death of One Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn". Book by Hendrik Willem van Loon, 1930.
“God is the God of 'right now.' He doesn't want you sitting around regretting yesterday. Nor does He want you wringing your hands and worrying about the future. He wants you focusing on what He is saying to you and putting in front of you ... right now.”
“Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.”
“We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.”

Source : "Challenge to the Cold War". Book by Dora Russell, Vol. 3, Ch. 14, 1985.
“We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.”
“So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.”
“In the late 60's to the early 70's, I was caught between the hippie and the skinhead movement. I had my hair cut so I didn't look like a straight at a hippie event, and I didn't look like a hippie at a skinhead event. It was a good haircut.”
“When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.”

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