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“The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.”

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Louis D. Brandeis was a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, known for his contributions to law and social justice. He was born on November 13, 1856, and died on October 5, 1941. more

“but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.”

Ifs Thinking Should Firsts Action Moving Consequence Consolation Earnest Halt Weighing

Author:Jose Saramago

“Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.”

Giving Growing Hatred Stronger Seeds Confusion Fury

Book:THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

“Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love.”

Persons Doe Made Feelings Decision Love Is Acting Emotional Commitment Genuine Genuine Love Loving Person Road Less Travelled

Book:The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.”

Ifs Cost

Book:Chronicles

Source: Chronicles

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

“A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.”

“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”

Said Light Social Disease Being The Best Efficient Electric Remedy Sunlight Publicity Policemen Electric Light

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief.”

Children Said America Grief Ignorant Spoiled Spoiled Children

Book:The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil: (Includes the 'In Persuasion Nation' collection)

Source: The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil: (Includes the 'In Persuasion Nation' collection)

Quote by Louis D. Brandeis

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