QUOTE A DAY - October 20, 2015

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JA

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*---- Quote For The Day ----*
The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
--Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth

...celebrity culture plunges us into a moral void. No one has any worth beyond his of her appearance, usefulness, or ability to 'succeed.' The highest achievements in a celebrity culture are wealth, sexual conquest, and fame. It does not matter how these are obtained.
--Chris Hedges

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
--Sinclair Lewis


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality.
--Mahatma Gandhi

Even Comrade Lenin underestimated both the anguish of that nine hundred mile-long front, and our cursed capacity for suffering.
--Yevgraf Zhivago

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
--Thomas Merton


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

ANSWER: James Baldwin

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