Georgia Harkness Quotes

The principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

Georgia Harkness

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• Human Misery

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• I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'

  

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• I bet she woke up with her hair looking like something out of a Pantene commercial while little bluebirds circled around her head, and raccoons brought her breakfast or something.

  

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• Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

  

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• I think, as a president, you have to want respect. You can't look for love from the American people. You have to just do what you think is right. Some people will hate you, but others, in the long run, will respect you for what you've done.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
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• Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

  

  Virginia Woolf

• Authority is never without hate.

  

  Euripides
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• It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
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• If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

  

  Epictetus
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  • Wish

• Zeal will do more than knowledge.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Knowledge
  • Passion
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• I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Culture
  • Goal
  • Aim

• Pitching against (Johnson) was an honor -- a great joy. Even though I lost, it was an honor to be out there against him.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Against
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• We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Women
  • Helping
  • Trouble

• Communities now find themselves in possession of improvements resulting from the WPA which even in 1929 they would have thought themselves presumptuous to dream of... [but] everywhere there had been an overhauling of the word presumptuous. We are beginning to wonder if it is not presumptuous to take for granted that some people should have much, and some should have nothing; that some people are less important than others and should die earlier; that the children of the comfortable should be taller and fatter, as a matter of right, than the other children of the poor.

  

  Harry Hopkins
  • Possession
  • Communities
  • Improvements

• The principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

  

  Georgia Harkness
  • Possession
  • Goods
  • Human Misery