"Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Gary Shteyngart

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Silence Quotes

“For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.”
“I don't worry about protein. I don't worry about all that. I'm from old school. I grew up in south Georgia. They didn't worry about cholesterol or protein. They went out and worked and lived a long time, so I don't put a lot of worries in my mind. I just get it done.”

Source : "Nearing 50, Renaissance jock Herschel Walker breaks fitness rules" by Madison Park, www.cnn.com. October 11, 2010.
“We come to the table not because we are holy, but because we are in need of His holiness. We come to the table not because we are strong, but because we are weak and in need of His strength.”

Source : Jonathan Martin (2013). “Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?”, p.165, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.”
“When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.”
“His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.”
“The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.”
“War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.”

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