#mon

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#demands #effect #god #ideas #inasmuch

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#beginning #day #game #grow #grow up

If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned - the latter would be quite small in comparison with the former. But we are hardly aware of what is generally attained, because it is attained without thought and even before the age of reason; because, moreover, learning is noticed only by its differences, and as in algebraic equations, common quantities count for nothing. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#age

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters. ↗

— Eugene Levy

#around #bring #characters #common #common man

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#commonly #difficult #effective #honourable #less

The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#harmony #peaceful #secure #understanding #unity

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#accept #challenge #greater #harmony #road

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you cintribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go. ↗