Bryant H. McGill Quotes

• Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

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• Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

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• Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

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• Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

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• Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

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• Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

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• Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

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• Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

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• Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness.

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• Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

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• Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

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• Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

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• Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

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• Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

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• American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

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• Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

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• A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

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• A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

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• A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

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• It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

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  Tags in Intellect, Powerful, Better

Bryant H. McGill (103)

Birth:	7th November, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Author, Editor

About

Bryant H. McGill was born in Mobile, Alabama. He is an American author, editor and activist in the fields of self-development, personal freedom and human rights. McGill is a poet , editor and author of the McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme, and other books in the McGill Reference Series, which are used by over one hundred thousand writers, educators, students, aspiring-poets and songwriters from over one hundred countries.

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