"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle."

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Source : Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The courage to be happy”

Dorothy Thompson

#Circles Quotes #Mind Quotes #Elements Quotes

“God knows the mess weâ€™re in when He calls us. His light shines greater through â€œcracked potsâ€ than it does through those who have it all together.”
“I've told Michael Jackson jokes. If you got really technical, you could say those are jokes about child molestation. You could, if you got technical. A lot of this is just selective outrage because honestly, the audience are the ones that tell us that something shouldn't be spoken. The audience lets us know. And I've never, in my almost 30 years of being a comedian, seen a comedian continue to tell a joke that the audience doesn't respond to. I've never seen it.”
“What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.”
“It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.”
“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.”

Source : Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world”, Century
“I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.”
“A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.”
“This is a strange game.”

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