"Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes."

-- Keith Henson

#Family Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Home Quotes

“We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as Orientalists portray it. Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves.”
“Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.”
“My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me on skis when I was one and a half. I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn't like. They didn't push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.”
“Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka aretÃ©), but excellence (aka aretÃ©) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.”
“I never watched 'Harper's Island.'”
“Nothing human is foreign to us”

Source : Edward G. Robinson, Leonard Spigelgass (1973). “All my yesterdays: an autobiography”
“Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.”
“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”

Source : "Friends" by Sharon Eakes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2016.

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