The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Inspirational Character Quotes to Help You Build Your Best Self - page 28
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
Peggy Noonan
I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.
Hafez
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
Henri Bergson
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The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.
dealing with any man means dealing with multiple personalities.
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about
John Hume
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
Mary Anne Radmacher
I have to love the DNA of the brand fundamentally. I need to be able to fuse my personality with theirs. That's what I've done with Adidas, Swatch, and in a different way with Moschino. I really have to feel fused with it.
Jeremy Scott
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.
Vincent Voiture
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.
[Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu.
Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]
Quintus Ennius
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.
Bridget Riley
Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.
Michael Faraday
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But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.
