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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#behind #common #common good #concentration #decisions

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#critical #cut #destroys #dishonest #emotions

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly. ↗

— Iris Chang

#conditions #could #economic #great #often

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. ↗

— Freya Stark

#awaken #quite #sensations #strange #town

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty. ↗

— Jung Chang

#chinese #cruelty #further #just #level

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions. ↗

— Josh Charles

#character #edge #ethical #fun #his

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#constant #contrived #directly #opposite #pain

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#because #deems #every #every man #hardest

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#come #complete #feel #humanity #imperfect

‎By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #love #motivational #poison #relationship