"The groups of which we are a part impact our decisions and our decisions shape the future."

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Mal Fletcher

#Impact Quotes #Decision Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite.”

Source : R. K. Laxman (1998). “The tunnel of time: an autobiography”, Viking Pr
“I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that in general people were pretty boring. They liked to moan for hours on end about how hard it was to make ends meet, about the money they owed, the price of food, and other similar worries, but the minute some more brilliant or attractive subject come up, they were struck deaf.”
“We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to be, to be more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavor to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is.”

Source : "The Inferno". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1917.
“Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.”

Source : "Johnny Isakson Says Sequestration Not A Concern In Georgia, But Constituents Disagree" by Amanda Terkel, Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.
“If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite direction, and pictured Nature when she was 'young and wantoned [sic] in her prime', as moving with the lame sedateness of advanced middle age. It became necessary, therefore, as Dr. [Samuel] Haughton expresses it, 'to hurry up the phenomena'.”
“Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.”

Source : "The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle". Book by Aristotle, transl. by R. W. Browne, Book VI, Chapter II, 1850.
“Faith is a total attitude of the self.”
“No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.”

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