"Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own."

-- Megan McArdle

#Moving Quotes #Social Quotes #Equilibrium Quotes

“I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.”
“When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.”
“A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.”
“Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.”
“There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.”
“During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.81, Delphi Classics
“Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.”

Source : "In Eutropium". I, 181. As quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 93-96, 1922.
“Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.”

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