John Lachs quotes
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“We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful... The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one”
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“Much as we complain about our condition or feel victimized by fortune or fellow humans, we simply love being alive. We love life in others and in ourselves. We are in love with life. To love life is to love the activities of which it consists and to hope for more.”
-- John LachsSource : John Lachs (1998). “In Love with Life: Reflections on the Joy of Living and why We Hate to Die”, p.136, Vanderbilt University Press
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“The distance we feel from our actions is proportionate to our ignorance of them; our ignorance, in turn, is largely a measure of the length of the chain of intermediaries between ourselves and our acts.”
-- John LachsSource : John Lachs (2014). “Freedom and Limits”, p.163, Oxford University Press
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“But dreams change. Fate has a way showing you paths you want more.”
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Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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“Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.”
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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics
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