Simon N. Patten famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.
-- Simon N. Patten

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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.
Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.

Simon N. Patten famous quotes

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