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“We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is what we DO, Or REFUSE TO DO. WE DECIDE and WE CHOOSE--and so we give definition to our lives.”

Giving Important Purpose Dies Born Our Lives Conditions Definitions Refuse Significant Realms Cowardice Adrift

Author:Joseph Epstein

“The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but important difference between the implementation of the high ideals of religious faith and public duty.”

Two Important Different Government Faces Political Differences Church Religious Duty Office Ideals Realms Subtle Religious Faith Implementation

Book:The Jimmy Carter Library

Source: The Jimmy Carter Library

“A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.”

Firsts Kind Has Beens Important Ideas Turns Belief Interest Concepts Genuine Invention Insanity Realms Assumption Reverse New Ideas Priesthood Vested Interests Old Ideas

Author:Arthur Miller

“Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm. ?”

Men Important Moving Social Share Feminism Emotional Victim Block Ideology Recognition Realms Spheres Rivals Dominance Caricatures Social History

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.”

Men Humans Important Answers Destiny Depth Realms Questioning

Author:Andre Malraux