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Quote by Michael Ignatieff

“...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.”

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Michael Ignatieff is a prominent Canadian politician, scholar, and writer. He has held several academic and public positions and is well-regarded both in Canada and internationally. more

“Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted with: beautiful is the flower of man, his conduct, and every door opens on the beautiful truth and never hides treacherous whispers. I always gained something from making myself better, better than I am, better than I was, that most subtle citation: to recover some lost petal of the sadness I inherited: to search once more for the light that sings inside of me, the unwavering light.”

Men Light Able Beautiful Lost Kindness Doors Sadness Flower Dear Illness Absence Subtle Grandeur Petals Treacherous Unwavering Citations

Book:The sea and the bells

Source: The sea and the bells

“I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin'," she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.”

Lasts Pay Gone Laughter Inflation Purses

Book:Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records

Source: Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records

“I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.”

Littles Has Beens Night Five Drink Decided Dinner

Author:Jean Rhys

“Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their ceremonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow and the trees twist in the wind and all the animals that God has made go to and fro yet this world men do not see. They see the acts of their own hands or they see that which they name and call out to one another but the world between is invisible to them”

Ifs Men World Made Said Hands Lying Names Wish Animal Tree Blood This World Serious Wind Drink Blow Storm Invisible Twists Ceremony Seriousness

Book:The Border Trilogy

Source: The Border Trilogy

“We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.”

World Nations Leader Worst Weapons Hostage Blackmail

Author:George W. Bush

“If its got tires or testicles it's going to give you trouble”

Ifs Giving Trouble Tire Testicles

Author:P. C. Cast

“As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused no more pain than, say, a tennis ball thrown sharply at the back of her head.”

Pain Possibility Balls These Days Indifference Tennis Thrown Remarks Faded Emma Tennis Balls No More Pain

Book:One Day

Source: One Day

“Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.”

Knows Emotion Know Me Robots Nun

Book:One Day

Source: One Day

“A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.”

World Dragons Worth Living

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.”

World Awareness Endless Landscape Sand Handful Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

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