#liz

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#another #been #book #both #collaboration

In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane. ↗

— Yukichi Fukuzawa

#civilization #culture #humanity #inspirational #inspirational

For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackness, is the next unfolding, the great unfurling of wings, the re-forged backbone of a true Child of Light. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#empower #empowering #empowerment #encouraging #growth

In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice. ↗

— Ali A. Saleh

#democracy #democratic #develop #every #homeland

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#characters #complimentary #endeavor #fertilization #highest

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#another #been #before #begins #change

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#always #convictions #doubt #important #intellect

With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#american way #ancestors #arms #came #died

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#ambition #australians #become #describe #election

I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow. ↗

— Willie Aames

#comfortable #doing #ever #feel #foot