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Quote by Marla Gibbs

“I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.”

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Marla Gibbs

Marla Gibbs, born on June 14, 1931, is an accomplished American film actress. She is best known for her role as Florence Hymes in the television series 'The Jeffersons', which earned her an Emmy Award nomination. more

“A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature a good bit, of course, but a bit only in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.”

Humans Courses Bits Religious Moral Human Nature Intellectual Artistic Unnatural Prominence

Book:Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (1858) Thomas Babington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (1857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862) Henry Crabb Robinson (1869) Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browni

Source: Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (1858) Thomas Babington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (1857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862) Henry Crabb Robinson (1869) Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browni

“The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created”

May Long Lasts Nations Failing Danger Creation Institutions Characteristics Great Nations Comprehending

Book:The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot

Source: The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot

“The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.”

World Ends Reason Age Lasts Desire Enlightenment Apocalypse Reformation Age Of Enlightenment

Book:The Inhuman Condition

Source: The Inhuman Condition

“If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure - because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society - then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.”