“We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”
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British missionary 1874–1917Related quotes
“Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.”
Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis.
Malheur at Pitié (1803), canto I.
Between Hell and Reason (1945)
Context: The world is what it is, which is to say, nothing much. This is what everyone learned yesterday, thanks to the formidable concert of opinion coming from radios, newspapers, and information agencies. Indeed we are told, in the midst of hundreds of enthusiastic commentaries, that any average city can be wiped out by a bomb the size of a football. American, English, and French newspapers are filled with eloquent essays on the future, the past, the inventors, the cost, the peaceful incentives, the military advantages, and even the life-of-its-own character of the atom bomb.
We can sum it up in one sentence: Our technical civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have to choose, in the more or less near future, between collective suicide and the intelligent use of our scientific conquests.
Meanwhile we think there is something indecent in celebrating a discovery whose use has caused the most formidable rage of destruction ever known to man. What will it bring to a world already given over to all the convulsions of violence, incapable of any control, indifferent to justice and the simple happiness of men — a world where science devotes itself to organized murder? No one but the most unrelenting idealists would dare to wonder.
“The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.”
Source: Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
“We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
