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I meet people in my business who have this extraordinary ability to understand human nature in their work, but in real life, they don't seem to have the first clue. ”
When you wake up, and you see that America has pulled out of the climate deal in Paris, that sends huge messages about putting coal before the planet. ”
The pace of change and the speed of war has greatly accelerated. ”
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. ”
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. ”
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not. ”
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. ”
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree. ”
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. ”
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. ”