"Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training."

-- Richard Davidson

#Thinking Quotes #Skills Quotes #People Quotes

“Thanksgiving, to be truly Thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving.”

Source : Jacob Morton Braude (1966). “Speaker's desk book of quips, quotes, & anecdotes”
“The great theatre for virtue is conscience.”
“A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.”
“Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one's body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity. Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world. In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe.”
“If you look at the movement of refugees, in Vladimir Lenin's phrase, "the people who voted with their feet," the movement of refugees until comparatively modern times was overwhelmingly from West to East, not from East to West. Refugees of all kinds were constantly fleeing from Christendom to the Islamic lands. Jews of course and Muslims of course, but even some Christians and the movement of refugees went overwhelmingly that way.”
“As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I was never interested in being an overly public person.”
“Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.”

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